MFF 2026: Festival Highlights
Sometimes that guy talking too much during a movie deserves a salute rather than a dirty look. That’s why Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild published an unironically grateful piece on April 18 called “11...
View ArticleMFF 2026: Week Two Picks
Looking for a surefire way to blow the minds of your friends? Shelve the cookbook. Drop the name-dropping. Forget that party trick (seriously, just no). All you really need is this year’s Milwaukee...
View ArticleMFF 2026: Retro Programming Recap
Fifty years after surfacing, “Jaws” is still leaving other movies dead in the water. When it opened over Labor Day weekend, Steven Spielberg’s toothy monster flick grossed $8.2 million before dropping...
View ArticleIntroducing the 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival
I’m thinking juuust a bit outside the box, so hear me out: Each movie at this year’s Milwaukee Film Festival should end with a post-credits stinger where Bob Uecker notices the remaining viewers and...
View ArticleMFF 2025: Festival Highlights
“No talking, no texting,” Milwaukee Film Executive Director Susan Kerns said. “But you can dance if you want to.” Kerns was introducing a 40th-anniversary screening of Susan Seidelman’s “Desperately...
View ArticleMFF 2025: Week Two Picks
At the concession stand, be sure to order some popcorn, a soft drink and a box of tissues. Napkins may not cut it. Today the Milwaukee Film Festival is showing “How to Make Millions Before Grandma...
View ArticleMFF 2025: Week One Picks
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a book signing with a Hollywood director. Once you go, you’ll miss the documentary about former Pizza Huts. If you pick that one, your schedule blows up. What do you do? What...
View ArticleIntroducing the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival
The last time the Milwaukee Film Festival operated at only two venues, “Slumdog Millionaire” was the reigning Oscar champ. Contraction might be the subtext of MFF’s 17th annual edition, which launches...
View ArticleConversation: Critics Eric Beltmann and Shelly Sampon React to the 2024...
The 16th annual Milwaukee Film Festival, which closed April 25, brought more than 300 films to audiences in southeastern Wisconsin. Critic Speak contributors Eric Beltmann and Shelly Sampon discuss...
View ArticleMFF 2024: Festival Highlights
After setting the over/under at 15 minutes, I lost the wager in my mind: It didn’t take that long for the first person to walk out. The Milwaukee Film Festival’s annual Super Secret Members-Only...
View ArticleMFF 2024: Week Two Picks
Trân Anh Hùng’s “The Taste of Things” is no popcorn movie. Concession stands are downright vulgar compared to the farmhouse kitchen at the center of Hùng’s tranquil story about food, art and passion....
View ArticleMFF 2024: Cream City Cinema selection spotlights local filmmakers
While most teenagers premiere their videos in front of family squeezed onto the living room couch, Zach Church will debut his latest movie on the big screen in front of hundreds of filmgoers. Church’s...
View ArticleIntroducing the 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival
If you wear the right shoes, it takes only 12 minutes to walk between the Oriental and Downer Theatres on Milwaukee’s East Side. That’s enough time to tell the story of how Milwaukee Film, which...
View ArticleMFF 2023: Festival Highlights
Never read your reviews, goes the old adage. But maybe it’s not so easy for an actor to ignore a bad notice while being heckled by his own director during their movie’s hometown premiere. “Boo!,”...
View ArticleMFF 2023: Worldviews section packs plenty of global pedigree
If the Mexican horror movie “Huesera” turned over a blood sample, its genetic makeup might prove startling. There’s a malignancy inside of Valeria, the young, pregnant wife at the center of Michelle...
View ArticleMFF 2023: Local documentary spotlights four immigrant stories
To get invited to the Milwaukee Film Festival, all Hasti Ghasemivaghar needed was a good idea and 10 bucks. Ghasemivaghar’s “Coming to Small Town America” is one of six nonfiction shorts included in a...
View ArticleIntroducing the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival
Throw a spatula at this year’s Milwaukee Film Festival, and you’re likely to hit a movie about movies. One of them, “I Like Movies,” has a title that might double as a tagline for the festival’s 15th...
View ArticleDanny Baldwin’s Top 10 Movies of 2022
Timing the publication of my annual Top 10 list has long been a tricky thing for me. If I haven’t seen all of the movies I perceive as “necessary contenders” – which is itself a highly arbitrary...
View ArticleReview: “Nomadland”
Critics who write with their politics first have all too conveniently positioned “Nomadland,” the Oscar frontrunner of the case-sensitive Moment, as an indictment of individualism. But that’s frankly...
View ArticleMovie Review: “The Whale”
“Why are you fucking with me like this?” Sadie Sink cries out to Brendan Fraser late in “The Whale,” in an exchange that can be read as the film’s climax or its resolution, depending on your outlook....
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