Peter Berg | Film Festival Today

Film Review: The Action Genre and Its Potential Are Botched in “Mile 22”

August 17, 2018

“Patriots Day” Pays Effective Tribute to Boston in the Aftermath of Tragedy

January 20, 2017

Film Review: “Cuties” Offers a Complex Examination of Tween Agency

Cuties (“Mignonnes”) (Maïmouna Doucouré, 2020) 3 out of 4 stars. Its dispiriting (and misleading) American movie trailer aside, the new French film Cuties, from first-time feature director Maïmouna Doucouré, provides a fascinating, complex and disturbing portrait of tween girlhood. The film showcases the genuine unease and identity confusion generated by a society that simultaneously sexualizes […]

Film Review: CUTIES
September 13, 2020
In defense of Cuties, it is a cultural eye-opener. Stop trying to bully Netflix. No one is forcing >>
Film Review: AVA
August 31, 2020
Don’t miss these three great fight scenes: Colin Farrell and John Malkovich, Jessica Chastain and >>
Film Review: UNHINGED
August 29, 2020
Crowe embodies the left behind, discarded American male who spends one day free of laws and rules. >>
Book Review: Apropos Of Nothing
August 29, 2020
Woody Allen’s Apropos Of Nothing is very skillful and purposeful. Disarmingly forthright, >>