For a film purporting knowledge about what it takes to make a truly great dish, its emotional textures are staggeringly homogenized.
Dan Katzir’s Yiddish Theater: A Love Story is a documentary of necessary compromises.
My God, it’s full of stars: a fitting DVD package for the greatest film ever made.
Who are we, where do we come from, and where are we going?
Life’s a mess of oft-funny tragedies but Park comes closer to apathy than empathy with its intended laughs.
I for India acts as a ravishing film-on-film commentary.
P2 trembles in the shadow of Red Eye, but it’s not without its virtues.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars is almost unsurpassed in its scientific accuracy.
This misguided documentary mistakes cutesy, polished aesthetics for meaningful sentiment.
Physically and spiritually, the characters of Mala Noche are in constant stasis.
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A documentary like Lynch seems about as close as we’re ever going to get to the director’s inner thoughts.
The Living and the Dead is most effective as a promise of greater things to come.
Black White + Gray draws out the unseen riches that exist within what may otherwise appear typical or commonplace.
O Jerusalem’s purported seriousness might label it as an adult’s film.
Weirdsville’s pleasures come too little too late.
Golda’s Balcony is a breathless yet stylistically disconnected mock-autobiography.
The experience afforded by a collection of this sort demands something of a reexamination of one’s relationship to the medium.
Like some demented cross between a Norman Rockwell painting and an Eli Roth film.
It’s when Desert Bayou examines the turgid boundaries between race and class that it is most effective.