Time
Much of the footage of Garrett Bradley’s Time comes from its subjects. At the beginning, we see a clip in grainy miniDV from Sibil Fox Richardson as she records a video diary years ago, addressing the...
View ArticleThe Wolf of Snow Hollow
Joel Coen has often said that the job of the director boils down to one thing – tone management. That shouldn’t be a surprising statement from the filmmaker responsible in part for so many modern...
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Revisit: Parasite
Bong Joon-ho returns to South Korea after a decade of making films abroad with Parasite, a film that fits as comfortably among the warped class portraits of his American work as it does the grisly,...
View ArticleThe Doorman
The story of The Doorman is simplicity personified, and the movie is at its best when it embraces that simplicity. This means that, on balance, it’s pretty good – mostly because screenwriters Lior...
View ArticleWelcome to the Blumhouse: Nocturne & Evil Eye
“Welcome to the Blumhouse,” a series of genre films premiering on Amazon Prime, hasn’t yet lived up to the reputation of its namesake. With last week’s disappointing debut duo of lackluster thrillers,...
View ArticleCriminally Underrated: A Perfect World
At the beginning of Clint Eastwood’s A Perfect World, we’re shown a man (Kevin Costner) laying in the grass—photographed above his chest, his arm behind his head, eyes closed. There’s a Casper the...
View Article2 Hearts
2 Hearts is an extraordinarily frustrating romantic drama about the Undying Power of Love, the existential pull of fate and coincidence and the comparatively banal, roulette-like nature of an organ...
View ArticleOeuvre: David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future
David Cronenberg’s second crack at an almost-feature-length film, Crimes of the Future, plays like a revisitation of some of the themes and techniques that made his previous effort, Stereo, feel like a...
View ArticleHonest Thief
Here is the latest entry into the unofficial subgenre of Liam Neeson Action Thriller, and unfortunately, Honest Thief doesn’t have much to add. We are soon to reach the twelfth anniversary of the movie...
View ArticleDavid Byrne’s American Utopia
Director Spike Lee made one of the great film adaptations of a Broadway musical, with thrilling rock songs and challenging thoughts about race, identity and the limitations of art. That movie is...
View ArticleRediscover: The Saragossa Manuscript
From the earliest days of the medium, the novel has provided room for meta-textual experimentation, with straightforward stories often memorably sidetracked in favor of a broader narrative scope....
View ArticleShithouse
Most films about the college experience truck with overdrinkers, stoners, horny frat boys and kids who just want to have fun. To hell with academic pursuits. These youngsters are here to party!...
View ArticleMartin Eden
Director Pietro Marcello’s adaptation of Jack London’s novel, Martin Eden, is a kitchen sink affair. He has thrown everything into this film. There are homages to Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light and Carl...
View ArticleAlone
Despite the timing of its release, Johnny Martin’s Alone isn’t actually a film about COVID-19, nor even a film intrinsically related to the global pandemic we’re currently living through. Matt Naylor’s...
View ArticleWhite Riot
The new documentary film White Riot describes a truly unimaginable time when a country with a deep history of liberal democracy and defeating Nazism is plagued by a deplorable economy that is fueling...
View ArticleThe Trial of the Chicago 7
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a film divided against itself. Much of writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s work has been built on a foundational notion of the inherent dignity of institutions, an idea he has...
View ArticleFrom the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Santa Jaws
Santa Jaws is one of those movies that comes from the inception of one extremely silly idea and is executed with the agony of a million extra terrible ones. You can probably pinpoint the foundation of...
View ArticleRebecca
It’s ironic that Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca, a story about a newly-married woman who struggles to survive in the shadow of her husband’s dead first wife, wrestles to venture out of its own shadowy...
View ArticleOeuvre: David Cronenberg: Shivers
David Cronenberg makes films from the perspective of the disease. Described as the King of Venereal Horror, a moniker the Canadian director has gone on record as relishing over the “body horror”...
View ArticleSynchronic
For their fourth feature effort, filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead continue a predilection for subverting well-worn genres with Synchronic, an off-kilter take on the time travel film. But...
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