music | Midwest Film Journal

James Ledesma examines "Green Book" from the perspective of a biracial man's foray into a music-tour career.

A by-the-numbers biopic that can't find the humanity in Judy Garland.

A remarkable music drama with one of the year's best performances.

A fully immersive, hallucinatory hell-trip

Swooning romance and sobering truths power one of the year's best.

"Coco" is one of Pixar's most heartfelt and human films.

A pretty, but empty, exploration of 9/11's aftermath.

A lively back-and-forth among a trio of musicians still striving and struggling to expand sound.

A passionless, pretentious and embarrassingly stiff vanity project.

An R-rated Disney sports movie with rap as the athletics of choice.

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