Thomas Messner

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
  • Film festivals
    The Piano Lesson

    Boy Willie Charles is both a troublemaker and smooth talker, a braggart...

  • Film festivals
    The End

    Were a man to find himself one of the last humans left standing on a...

  • Film festivals
    Blitz

    A young boy torn from his mother by urban warfare, setting off on a harrowing...

  • Film festivals
    Good One

    At 17, it’s already readily apparent that the adults in your life are more...

  • Film festivals
    Nickel Boys

    To truly have walked in another man’s shoes, is it better to have seen his...

  • Film festivals
    All of You

    It’s hard to root against a romantic drama. No matter how tried and true (or...

  • Theatre
    House at Barbican Theatre

    Adapting his own decades-spanning documentary trilogy, director Amos Gitai and La...

  • Movie
    My Old Ass

    Were you to come face to face with your older self, the harrowing possibilities seem...

  • Movie
    Reawakening

    When we first meet John and Mary (Jared Harris and Juliet Stevenson, respectively), they are...

  • Movie
    The Critic

    When reading the logline for Anand Tucker’s new yarn, one can’t help but think about...