Darwin suggests both the impish faux-humanism of Errol Morris and the noble social perversity of Sherwood Anderson.
The apropos-of-nothing professionalism of Protektor often feels more like branding than filmmaking.
The film is an affectionate, if uncomfortably stagnant, portrait of moribund rural culture.
The film likeably recognizes that all of the adolescent epiphanies worth rendering in film must be represented non-verbally.
Impolex is an uncommonly honest paean to millennial fecklessness.
Naked peels back the maggot-infested curtain of Thatcher’s London to reveal an atom of hope.
What’s most disappointing about the film is how it fails to deliver on the hybridizing NYC gimmickry of its title.
Kristin Canty’s Farmageddon is a plucky, grassroots, urban mulch pile of info-tainment.
Suckling as it does from the budding teat of preadolescent sexuality, it’s not surprising that Black Moon is a tad Malle-nourished.
The jazzily named Bakin’ @ the Potato! compiles an inscape of a set list from what are arguably Keneally’s most restlessly philosophical LPs.
Adjectives don’t stick easily to Marilyn Monroe, to any of the hundreds of Marilyn Monroes that exist.
General Orders No. 9 is both a Chris Marker-esque paean to the state of Georgia and an oblique lamentation toward the nature-perverting wheels of progress.
Four proto-celebrities go Roeg, and Gary Busey enters the Criterion Collection for the second time. What’s not to like?
Andrew Rossi’s documentary allows a print titan a kind of nail-biting self-portraiture.
One Lucky Elephant effortlessly shuttles between unlikely love story, wildlife documentary, and character portraiture.
Ultimately, all kinds of freedom prove ensnaring and destructive in Out of the Blue.
Can you blame Lindsay Anderson for (allegedly) having a secret crush on Richard Harris?
The Big Uneasy synopsizes expert findings from the aftermath of New Orleans’s devastation during Hurricane Katrina.
A Serbian Film takes its time getting to its queasy-making scenes, and even then delivers them in a fragmented, nonlinear fashion.
Demme’s film provides a rhythm to which we can revolutionize our private lives.