The flurry of important film releases continues as we build toward awards season. If you are a film critic, cinephile or just an average movie fan, it can be difficult to keep up. But I’m doing my best, with my own flurry of reviews. Go here to find out what I’ve seen, and reviewed, recently. Though I didn’t write a review, let me say that The Thing with Feathers, starring Benedict Cumberbatch is, regrettably, nothing to crow about. (But the Cumberbitches will like it.)

While watching War Hunt on Turner Classic Movies recently, I was reminded that it’s been more than a month and a half since Robert Redford’s passing. TCM showed Redford’s debut film, from 1962, as part of a tribute to the legendary actor-director. When “introducing Robert Redford” came on screen, I admit I got chills, though I doubt I would have spotted greatness from the young actor in this small but meaningful character study of the Korean War. (The film is also notable for the debuts of Sydney Pollack, Tom Skerritt and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him Francis Ford Coppola.)