Groucho Reviews

02/03/2026

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12/24/2025

Here we go...check out my picks and if you like 'em, pass the link on to your (movie-loving) friends.
Focus Features Janus Films MUBI US A24 Sony Pictures Classics Strand Releasing IFC Films IFC The Forge Warner Bros.

Sometimes nothing satisfies like a classically structured, good old-fashioned awards-friendly drama—at least when it’s as ideally executed as Chloe Zhao’s earthy and deeply moving Hamnet, adapted with Maggie O’Farrell from her own speculative historical novel about Shakespeare’s marriage a...

11/13/2025

New interview alert: my 7th chat with writer-director Ira Sachs, this time on Peter Hujar's Day, now playing from Janus Films.

I wanted to continue working with Ben [Whishaw]. And I wanted to make art with him…to be with someone when they are alone is one of the great qualities of cinema.

02/02/2025

This week in : my piece on the new KCSM jazz-radio documentary!

01/03/2025

Grab a copy of Palo Alto Weekly this week, or head to for even more of my Year in Film article: top docs and animated films, and heroes and villains of the year.

12/29/2024

Happy holidays, cineastes. My take on in is now posted at GrouchoReviews.com

10/30/2024

Third audience to see the new adventure of , Vengeance Most Fowl, coming soon to . Directors Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham in attendance for reception at Javva the Hutt and Q&A in ’s Premier Theater.

08/02/2024

Trust me, you’ll be hearing his name. Ruaridh Mollica’s star is on a rapid rise, especially with his starring role in , from Kino Lorber Films. You may have seen him in Netflix’s Red Rose or Hulu’s Witness Number 3, and he’s soon to star in Armando Iannucci’s ensemble comedy for Max, The Franchise. (If you like the interview, for the love of Pete, please like and subscribe. 😛)

04/09/2024

New Groucho Review:

She ostensibly plays a cinematic supervillain in The People’s Joker, but as the story of the film—and, finally, the film itself—reaches ever-wider audiences, Vera Drew has come into focus as a cinematic superhero...

01/17/2024

Check out my latest interview—and if you like this sort of thing, please “like and subscribe”! .d

01/16/2024

Trần Anh Hùng on , cooking, & working with :

IFC Films Larsen Associates

This interview took place on January 16, 2024 by Zoom during Tran's San Francisco stop on his press tour for The Taste of Things.

01/05/2024

Check out my cover story in this week’s Palo Alto Weekly, on stands today and at : the film year in review.