Geena Davis is affecting as Marjorie’s daughter Tess, on edge as she steers through her anger, resentment, and yearning for a mother who is slipping away...
Does a film like DETROIT help or hurt? Does turning these real life events into a “narrative thriller” cheapen the truth? Can anybody white say anything meaningful about anybody black?...
Here’s a rewarding artistic excursion for the new year– an erotic crime thriller two ways, one onscreen, the other onstage. Both are based on the devilishly byz...
This was a strange year for movies. I could barely find a thing to watch all summer, and then was inundated with a flood of excellent features in the Fall. No o...
FENCES– the seminal Pulitzer Prize-winning work by August Wilson, one of a decade-by-decade 10-play cycle about the black experience in America–will rattle your...
A pair of movies now playing at a cineplex near you wear their agendas on their sleeves: each re-tells a true story, skewers its villains, and brings its audien...
Most of us know the tale, but this exceptionally rational and exciting movie tells the story behind that story, of what happened during and after those fateful 208 seconds....
Joyce Kulhawik is an Emmy Award-Winning arts and entertainment critic (CBS-Boston 1981-2008), Arts Advocate, Motivational Speaker, and 3X Cancer survivor. Kulhawik is the President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and Boston Online Film Critics Association. She has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood, reporting live from The Oscars,The Emmys, and The Grammys. Nationally, Kulhawik has co-hosted the syndicated movie-review show "Hot Ticket" with Leonard Maltin and was a continuing co-host on “Roger Ebert & The Movies.” Joyce also Moonwalks and Yodels. Additional reviews can be found on her website JoycesChoices.com.
