Review: An Unlikely Friendship Unfolds in Carefully Crafted The Painter and The Thief
As film premises go, the one for The Painter and the Thief is a doozy: an artist seeks out and befriends the man who stole her paintings. If it weren’t a […]
Lisa Trifone is Managing Editor and a Film Critic at Third Coast Review. A Rotten Tomatoes approved critic, she is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. Find more of Lisa's work at SomebodysMiracle.com
Review: Alice Proves a Promising if Over-Polished Debut Feature Film
Writer/director Josephine Mackerras makes her feature film debut with Alice, the story of a woman who discovers her husband’s obsession with a high-end escort service only to be drawn into the […]
Review: Slight Fourteen Considers Friendship Over the Years
Something about Fourteen, a drama about the unique connection between close friends over time, feels downright retro. It’s not a period piece, but it’s as if it was made in another […]
Review: Beanie Feldstein Shines in Coming Of Age Adventures of How to Build a Girl
For some reason, the world at large has yet to realize what a stunning talent Beanie Feldstein truly is; the 26 year old (and Jonah Hill’s younger sister) can sing, […]
Review: A Dismal Set Up Makes 1BR Hard to Live With
Somewhere in 1BR, between the pointless torture porn and one-dimensional protagonist, is a smart commentary on the danger of cult mentality and how anyone can get wrapped up in something dangerous, […]
Review: Becoming Announces Michelle Obama as a Woman With More To Do
Earlier this year, Hulu released a four-part documentary mini-series on Hillary Clinton; the aptly titled Hillary is an up-close and personal look at the politician’s life from her childhood in suburban Park […]
Review: Aspiring to Greatness, Dark Comedy Arkansas Is Only A Faded Copy
If the name Clark Duke isn’t immediately recognizable, chances are the face is; now in his mid-thirties, Duke has been acting since the early 2000s. Roles in Hot Tub Time Machine, […]
Review: Deerskin is Dark, Absurd and Funny…Until It’s Not
If you’ve heard of Quentin Dupieux, it might be in relation to one of his earlier films, Rubber. It’s the story of a tire—you know, the ones on cars—that goes […]
Review: A Speed-Read (Watch?) Through the History of Money in Capital in the 21st Century
An adaptation of Thomas Piketty’s 704-page tome on the distribution of resources over the course of history, Capital in the 21st Century isn’t exactly a reassuring chronicle of how the world’s […]
Review: Delight in Someone, Somewhere, a Clever, Contemporary French Romance
French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch’s latest film is a clever, original romance wherein the two leads, clearly meant to be together, are too busy living their lives as neighbors who never […]
Review: Thousand Pieces of Gold Remains a Relevant, Beguiling Romance
We’re all using our time in self-isolation differently. For me, it’s a lot of watching films that—until a global pandemic had me home 24/7—were blindspots in my viewing history (or […]
Review: Eating Up Easter Tries to Capture the Robust Culture, Many Challenges of Life on an Isolated Island
If your knowledge of Easter Island is limited to its imposing Moai statues—the centuries-old stone figures that draw thousands of tourists to the small island in the Pacific Ocean every […]