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Oeuvre: Fellini: Voice of the Moon
The Voice of the Moon was Fellini’s final film and it is a composition that only Fellini could make. By 1990, his touch was unmistakable: whirring set pieces with hundreds of costumed, gyrating extras,...
View ArticleThe Card Counter
Writer and director Paul Schrader continues his exploration of pathological loners with The Card Counter, an effective dramatic thriller that uses stylish, cool performances to hide disturbing ideas....
View ArticleThe Alpinist
The mountain climber Marc-André Leclerc died in an avalanche on March 5, 2018. He was 25, and his death was a tragedy. It is also a matter of public record; there were news reports and a memorial...
View ArticleLanguage Lessons
We’re 18 months into a global pandemic that will forever be remembered for its lockdowns and attempts at socially distant connection. As movie theaters open back up, diverting spectacles like F9 and...
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Rediscover: Smooth Talk
Teenage ennui, the desire to break free from the chrysalis and step towards the light of adulthood, is a fecund subject for the arts because the feeling is so universal. It’s the human condition to...
View ArticleAzor
Azor, an Argentine-French-Swiss film featuring a revolving door of languages and the first full-length feature film from director and co-writer Andreas Fontana, follows the main character of Yvan De...
View ArticleMalignant
There’s truly something magical about watching an artist not give a fuck while simultaneously giving all the fucks in the world. Such is the case with James Wan’s Malignant, which feels revelatory in...
View ArticleBad Candy
The appeal of the horror anthology film lies in how it often mimics that classic “campfire and ghost stories” tradition, taking the viewer through a handful of short stories told sequentially over the...
View ArticleDating & New York
In Dating & New York, writer/director Jonah Feingold sticks to the basics of the romantic comedy, and that more or less works in its favor. In many ways, it reminds one of the subgenre efforts of...
View ArticleThe Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre
A much-anticipated wrestling match is interrupted by a zombie outbreak in The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre, a horror-comedy hybrid that is tepid about its horror elements and often...
View ArticleEating Our Way to Extinction
With a formidable cast of actors, researchers, government representatives, undercover reporters, businessmen and citizens, Eating Our Way to Extinction is a documentary that does not shy away from hard...
View ArticleHoly Hell! Bully Turns 20
The shadow of photographer turned writer/director Larry Clark’s 1995 debut Kids still loomed large over his third movie, the return to form that is Bully. But what was that form? Troubling,...
View ArticleFire Music
You should already know if you’re the target audience for Fire Music, Tom Surgal’s loving documentary profile of the free jazz scene and its prime movers. With generous footage of Ornette Coleman,...
View ArticleOeuvre: Melville: The Silence of the Sea
Like many of the best directors, Jean-Pierre Melville seems himself like a cinematic figure, a self-created character whose manufactured mythos also feels entirely genuine. Born Jean-Pierre Grumbach in...
View ArticleCopshop
As if to set the audience’s expectations right quick, the first shot of Copshop is the Nevada desert and a twirling six-shooter entering frame right. Joe Carnahan’s latest is undoubtedly very much a...
View ArticleThe Nowhere Inn
Despite the lip service we pay to the importance of authenticity, art and artificiality often become intertwined. An artist’s persona can develop into a façade, even an alter ego, and with increased...
View ArticleCry Macho
We all know guys who think they have all the answers, or think they need to have all the answers. Clint Eastwood, perhaps more than any other American actor-director, has for more than half a century...
View ArticleRediscover: The Weirdo
“Why can’t people be nice to one another?” This wishful world view spoken by a naïve teenage girl is a key line in a late-career work by a filmmaker whose low-budget grindhouse output was rife with...
View ArticleBest Sellers
The two characters at the center of Best Sellers make perfect sense together, not least because they rub each other entirely the wrong way for much of this story. She is a young publisher, on the brink...
View ArticlePrisoners of the Ghostland
Nicolas Cage yells “Testicle!” before a crowd of post-apocalyptic captives in Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland. With its inventive art direction and fever-pitched visuals, this dystopian...
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