In The Holy Girl, Lucrecia Martel strikingly conflates the confusion of adolescent desire with spiritual paranoia.
World Park is less crossroads of the world than land of confusion.
The equivalent of looking through a family member’s home movies, Rolling Family is truly less than the sum of its parts.
Harvey has never struck me as an explicitly political artist, but her lyrics are vague enough to welcome multiple interpretations.
An embarrassment of riches, the film addresses the almost vampiric relationship between audiences and movies.
You may not be able to tell if Raymond Depardon is encouraging sympathy or contempt for the people who stand before the judge.
The thrill of Who Killed Bambi? is derived not from cheap plot maneuvers and narrative twists.
Strictly for anyone who ever wanted to know what it would be like if Chris Columbus directed El Topo.
As long as Cosmo girls exist, so will films like Raising Helen.
I love the color blue on the DVD cover, but were the haloes, not to mention the tagline “Cupid Just Turned Eight,” really necessary?
Yann Samuell mainlines into Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie for inspiration but can scarcely muster a contact high.
Put this one in your DVDs To Snort Coke Off Of pile.
Even during its second season, the show’s color palette was at times inconsistent, with some episodes more vibrant than the next.
Eulogy’s spectacle of nastiness doesn’t indicate a family’s greater, largely unspoken love for one another.
Both love story and folk tale, Tropical Malady intersects eros with cultural traditions.
Kings and Queen is at once Arnaud Desplechin’s most straightforward and scattershot creation.
Keren Yedaya is clearly interested in the role of women in Tel Aviv, but the city remains anonymous.
A student of Patrice Chéreau and Éric Rohmer, Agnès Joui sees the humanity in everyone.
Throughout, Danielle Aribid vividly parallels a country’s social unrest with a girl’s coming of age.
Anyone who can powerfully evoke the ecstasy of lovemaking with a shot of gently falling snow is a talent to watch.