Cinema Viewfinder

by Tony Dayoub The opening scenes in SHE SAID, Maria Schrader's new movie about the media coverage that first addressed Hollywood's colossal #metoo problem, spend a considerable amount of...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2022/11/movie-review-she-said-2022.html

by Tony Dayoub (With Ukraine under fire and Europe on the verge of war, it seems like an odd time to discuss such a trivial matter as cinema. However, assembling this list helped distract me...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2022/03/best-of-2021-10-best-films-of-year.html

by Tony Dayoub The question mark in the post title is because some have taken issue with whether my nominee for best film of the year is actually a movie or not (as I'll address when discussi...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2021/03/best-of-2020-11-best-films-of-year-and.html

by Tony Dayoub It's Oscar Day! No predictions. Here, for your consideration, are my top films of 2019 followed by the winners of the respective polls I participated in. 1. PARASITE, DIRE...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2020/02/best-of-2019-13-best-films-of-year.html

by Tony Dayoub Tied to the release of Quentin Tarantino's ninth film, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, Atlanta's historic Plaza Theatre and the Atlanta Film Society are hosting a special retro...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2019/07/atlantas-plaza-theatre-presents-nine.html

by Tony Dayoub As Academy Awards night approaches this Sunday, and for your consideration, my top films of 2018 followed by the winners of the respective polls I participated in. 1. FIR...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2019/02/best-of-2018-12-best-films-of-year.html

by Tony Dayoub As Academy Awards night bears down on us, here is my annual filmic appreciation. For your consideration, my top films of 2017, followed by the winners of the respective polls...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2018/02/best-of-2017-13-best-films-of-year.html

by Tony Dayoub Adapted by Joe Penhall from the book by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Netflix's 10-episode MINDHUNTER is my latest binge-worthy obsession. Shepherded by filmmaker David Fi...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2017/10/freeze-frame-mindhunter-2017.html

by Tony Dayoub After a number of previous attempts at getting the alchemy right, Sony Pictures finally gets its (500) Days of Spider-Man in SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING. Ironic, because not even...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2017/07/movie-review-spider-man-homecoming-2017.html

by Tony Dayoub When Ryan Reynolds was beating the bushes for an Oscar this past year, he dropped the tantalizing tidbit that even if his pattern-breaking, adult-oriented Deadpool failed t...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2017/02/movie-review-logan-2017.html

by Tony Dayoub As usual, I'm running late with this. But I had the opportunity to see more films for 2016 than I have for any previous years, so I wanted to be comprehensive in my viewing. ...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2017/01/best-of-2016-13-best-films-of-year.html

by Tony Dayoub Let's discuss some of the recent films up for end-of-the-year consideration. JACKIE The unusual sounds of Mica Levi's orchestrations are heard before the picture com...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2016/12/return-of-capsule-reviews-2016-edition.html

by Tony Dayoub The highly anticipated SUICIDE SQUAD proves to be a not entirely unsurprising fizzle. It's the second in DC's expansion of its extended film universe (it's really not fair ...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2016/08/movie-review-suicide-squad-2016.html

by Tony Dayoub Recent events in the (not so) United Kingdom have altered my perception of a couple of movies in which Britain serves as a faint backdrop. Each misses the mark in some surpri...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2016/07/movie-reviews-legend-of-tarzan-2016-and.html

by Tony Dayoub I've been wracking my brain all week trying to figure out why I can't come up with a coherent review for this weekend's big hit, BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE. It wasn...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2016/03/loose-thoughts-on-batman-v-superman.html

by Tony Dayoub From the Online Film Critics Society (of which I am a proud member ): > THE ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY  (OFCS) - the > oldest and most prominent society for on...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/12/2015-online-film-critics-society-award.html

by Tony Dayoub A bravura, single-take shot launches SPECTRE, the latest 007 film. Sam Mendes helms this follow-up to his brilliant Skyfall, with cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema stepping...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/11/movie-review-spectre-2015.html

by Tony Dayoub Director Steven Spielberg reunites with Tom Hanks for the cold war thriller BRIDGE OF SPIES. Based on fact, the film details the capture and arrest of Rudolf Abel (Mark Ryl...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/10/movie-review-bridge-of-spies-2015.html

by Tony Dayoub There is a sense that Netflix is venturing into new territory with this week's release of Cary Joji Fukunaga's BEASTS OF NO NATION. Fukunaga, whose greatest claim to fame s...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/10/movie-review-beasts-of-no-nation-2015.html

by Tony Dayoub Two wildly different documentaries worth your time go into wide release today. One is WINTER ON FIRE, a sober chronicle of the early days of the unrest in the Ukraine that bo...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/10/docs-x-2-finders-keepers-2015-and.html

by Tony Dayoub News this week that liquid water has been discovered on Mars and that actor Matt Damon has repeatedly lodged his foot in his mouth (discussing whether gay actors should com...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/10/movie-review-martian-2015.html

by Tony Dayoub Spinning off from it's popular sister show, Arrow, THE FLASH largely succeeded from escaping Arrow's long shadow within just a couple of episodes. Where it took nearly its ...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/09/blu-ray-review-flash-complete-first.html

by Tony Dayoub The intrigue of a monarch marshaling his forces against an insurgent has been fodder for exciting movies stretching back for decades. When the soldiers are only an inch hig...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/09/movie-review-pawn-sacrifice-2015.html

by Tony Dayoub I take no pleasure in piling on a bad movie, but a lot of us who grew up reading "The World's Greatest Comic Magazine," as FANTASTIC FOUR was sub-titled for many years, are...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/08/four-reasons-fantastic-four-was.html

by Tony Dayoub 19 years after Tom Cruise first appeared as super-spy Ethan Hunt in the first entry of the series, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION gives us one of the first indications t...

http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2015/07/movie-review-mission-impossible-rogue.html