Grand Tour
Miguel Gomes is one of the more inventive directors in world cinema. He also proves how much a great artist can do with a small budget. Gomes’s last two projects encapsulate this well: a vivid,...
View ArticleJulie Keeps Quiet
The struggle to “make it” in sports is not a new concept in film. The idea almost lends itself to a feature-length project, as the challenges the character faces can be shaped into the first half of a...
View ArticleHoly Hell! Caché Turns 20
The reputation of auteurs is always a fun dinner topic. With the power of two decades of hindsight, it’s typically trivial to place notable films and filmmakers into broad categories; “underrated on...
View ArticleWilliam Tell
The legend of William Tell, the Swiss folk hero who was an expert marksman and mountain climber, dates back to the 1470s. Still, its consolidation throughout history possibly reaches its most diluted...
View ArticleOeuvre: Spielberg The Post
After the releases of Jaws and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, movie fans and industry analysts alike worried Steven Spielberg’s blockbusters would be the death knell of mid-budget entertainment. They...
View ArticleThe Luckiest Man in America
In Quiz Show, Martin Scorsese plays a shrewd television executive who understands the appeal of game shows. He explains, “You see, the audience didn’t tune in to watch some amazing display of...
View ArticleFreaky Tales
If the Tarantino influence wasn’t obvious early in the anthology action-comedy Freaky Tales, the final vengeance-fueled massacre of neo-Nazis via samurai sword should do the trick. Writer-director duo...
View ArticleA Nice Indian Boy
The third feature from director Roshan Sethi, A Nice Indian Boy is a romantic comedy so smoothly assembled and lightly likable that the impressive weave of its storyline can get overlooked. Efficiently...
View ArticleWake Up
Wake Up is so close to being a fun romp of a slasher film. Our protagonists wear animal masks and carry spray-paint guns that look like rifles. Our killer is a deranged security guard whose hobbies...
View ArticleWhen Fall Is Coming
The inciting incident of When Fall Is Coming involves one of the characters falling, but this pun doesn’t actually work with the film’s original title in French, Quand Vient l’Automne. That’s an...
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