Nayman’s discussion of Anderson’s ellipses implicitly cuts to the heart of why some critics and audiences resist Anderson’s work.
The film’s purposeful archness challenges the sentimentality that marks many a film and real-life ceremony.
Elan and Rajeev Dassani’s Evil Eye has no set pieces, jokes, or surprises.
In French Exit’s best passages, sadness and curt, resonant comedy exist side by side unceremoniously.
Over the Moon mixes the unbridled free-association of playtime with an undercurrent of barbed satire.
The film may be a comparatively “straight” entry in Lynch’s filmography, but it’s nevertheless a rapturously beautiful and moving art object.
Writer-director Jim Cummings reinvigorates an oft-told tale with personal, thorny preoccupations.
At the heart of Veena Sud’s film is the raw material for a potentially ingenious satirical domestic thriller.
Criterion has outfitted this seminal but somewhat outdated crime film with a beautiful transfer.
Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper both understand that cinema’s inherent fakeness is the wellspring of its importance and its danger.
Brandon Cronenberg’s film is obsessed with tensions between mind and body and old and new technologies.
The supplements may not be new, but they’re still meaty, and the 4K restoration accentuates the brutal, beautiful punch of an essential noir.
Sofia Coppola captures how our idealized, movie-fed ideas of “night life” reflect our longing for adventure as well as our loneliness.
Thomas Vinterberg’s latest, like The Hunt, is ultimately a parable about breaking a social contract.
Concrete Cowboy is stirring when it really dives into specificity.
Throughout, J Blakeson crafts sharp, curt dialogue that makes a fashion statement out of contempt.
Throughout, the characters aren’t allowed to reveal themselves apart from the dictates of the plot.
The film suggests Hong Sang-soo’s fantasy of how women discuss him when he’s not around.
John Hyams’s film refutes the frenetic clichés of so modern American thrillers.
It’s a relief to have Schrader’s underrated sexual psychodrama outfitted with the ravishing transfer it deserves.