The drama works better when it’s stuck in the characters’ throat like a lump in a limbo, unable to be completely swallowed nor spitted out.
Good intentions alone still don’t make great movies.
Me, Too does a good job quietly arguing that normativity bears no guarantee for happiness.
Con Artist is inventive in its mix of talking-head interviews, forays into Mark Kostabi’s childhood, and peeks at his present day.
New York City and its Converse-loving youth is the muse of NY Export: Opus Jazz.
The hedonist possibilities of New York City remain unexplored in Walkaway.
The Magician might have worked better if it could have sustained for its first several sequences a sense of genre confusion.
Non-experimental gay cinema often falls victim of the same social ailment that afflicts many gays themselves.
Margarethe von Trotta is mostly interested in moving the story along than pausing for effect.
The film is a magical realist comedy about the idealization of state-sanctioned heterosexual coupledom.
The film turns Mumbai’s chaos into an atmospheric playground for a soap opera-like love triangle to unfold.
Nothing screams hackneyed repurposing like using a Nietzschean citation as preface to very non-Nietzschean drivel.
The film’s sole preoccupation is to reassert the biological imperative that men will be boys.
Director Ngawang Choephel zeros in so close to his own broken body that he ends up finding the symptoms of the universe in there.
It’s the mesmerizing and unflinching face of 10-year-old actress Blanca Engström that makes the film such an immersive experience.
The narrative, set to an astounding soundtrack, is not always intelligible, but always beguiling.
Modus Operandi doesn’t look beyond the aesthetics it admires.
It seems to think that great filmmaking, or great profit, can only be achieved through miming formulaic American cinema.
Although Baghdad Texas doesn’t really work as an allegory on border diplomacy and war, its imagination is both honest and authentic.
Hiding Divya is consistently sterile and unabashedly TV-movie-like.