King Kelly never gives its main character a chance to go beyond what we expect her to be.
The great thing about Jonathan Caouette’s work is his ability to own his American sensibility.
Habibi goes in and out of a wearyingly traditional mode of narrative filmmaking.
The camera captures the characters’ exterior and internal spaces with delicacy and tremendous believability.
A Man’s Story does a major disservice to an artiste of fashion with a pretty amazing and prolific oeuvre.
parental smothering will always seem prosaic when we think of Dogtooth’s masterful exposé of normativity’s artifice.
A smart comedy about the bourgeoisie’s discomfort with anything that it can’t recognize as itself.
The film is seduced by the obvious, perhaps too obvious, dramatic possibilities inherent in placing a culturally insensitive American in Iran.
The film is at its best when it lingers on intimacy and the characters’ incompetency to manage it.
Borba spends much of André Costantini and Burt Sun’s documentary speaking inanities, clichés, or boasting about his celebrity status and prolific bent.
BearCity 2 is often too cheesy to, well, bear.
Diana Vreeland looked like Louise Bourgeois, but shared the inventive boldness of a René Magritte.
Do we really need another film about underachieving white men with scruffy beards?
In Carné’s tale of helplessness and despair, solitude is the only existential guarantee.
Green works as a tale of the losses and gains that can come from that which we cannot account for.
Oh, the hilarious awkwardness of placing privileged white kids in a place where they don’t belong.
It’s the warping, re-signifying logic of affect and memory that architected this list.
The film’s way of seeking joie de vivre through the strangeness of others can only be read as white-guilt management.
Its characters are ultimately too one-dimensional and their dialogue too theatrical to sustain an involving cinematic experience.
The film exposes the artifice required to bring to the screen the unadorned naturalness of the downtrodden in all of its heartbreaking glory.