Most of the film’s great moments belong in Matthew Porterfield’s traditional observational wheelhouse.
Tony Zierra interviews Leon Vitali at length, and he’s a commanding camera object with an obvious wellspring of longing and pain.
The film comes to life in moments where it suggests the blurred distinctions between freedom and imprisonment.
Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge is so extravagantly violent and hopeless that it boasts a weird integrity.
In her understandable fury, Vivian Qu almost valorizes suffering, embracing it as a substantial signifier of identity.
The film comes to concern a selfless martyr before morphing, most absurdly, into a disease-of-the-week tearjerker.
In Alan Rudolph’s film, a sense of encroaching irrelevancy parallels the invisibility the characters feel.
One never knows what they’re going to encounter in Dead Man at any given moment.
This legendary screwball comedy boasts a succinct emotional suggestiveness that’s sorely lacking in modern Hollywood productions.
Every moment in Jones’s film is so precisely textured that it becomes fantastical.
It proffers an ambiguous portrait of men attempting to do honorable work in a fundamentally dishonorable war.
With this film, Nathan Silver has created one of modern American cinema’s great not-quite-romances.
It initially suggests a low-rent blend of a Polanski class parable with a relationship drama in the key of Malcolm D. Lee.
Tellingly, Pass Over’s best moments are the documentary segments that frame the filmed performance.
In his new film, director William Friedkin locates the intersection existing between religion and pop culture.
Throughout the film, Lucas Belvaux sidelines the emotional textures that might complicate all his sermonizing.
Arrow sheds clarifying light on Argento’s elusive and hallucinatory film, without compromising its unnerving bottomlessness.
One of last year’s most haunting films receives a gorgeous transfer that’s perhaps appropriately light on supplements.
Director Joshua Marston’s Come Sunday exists in a vacuum of blandly expositional generality.
Altman’s fascinating and divisive psychological horror film receives a top-notch transfer from Arrow Academy.