Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The film lacks for the more lacerating, freely parodic energy of The Larry Sanders Show and 30 Rock.
It has been a wild ride to the screen for the film, which Gray announced way back in 2016 at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film is an all-too-fitting whimper of a conclusion to a franchise that never remotely fulfilled its potential.
The film is certainly intently devoted to the hoariness of this odd-couple scenario.
There’s a surprising sense of communal exchange between the male strippers and their fans in Gene Graham’s documentary.
The film is a poignant but hopelessly clichéd story of survival in the face of adversity.
Joe Talbot’s film is a melancholic reflection on gentrification and urban black experience.
The film succeeds as a stingingly personal missive aimed squarely at Brazil’s right-wing resurgence.
Rather than a slice-of-life documentary, The Raft becomes a rather moving political parable.
The story of DeLorean’s life suggests Citizen Kane set in the world of cars.
Throughout, the too-brief depictions of Luciano Pavarotti’s flaws are conspicuously shrouded in a veil of hagiography.
The experience of watching Dominga Sotomayor’s film is not unlike entering a stranger’s dream without an anchor.
Despite a few undeniably intense and lurid moments, the film lacks the pulsating fury of a significant genre work.
In the end, the filmmakers settle for stigmatizing victimhood, abusing Sue Ann almost as much as her former tormentors.
The film finds Dónal Foreman exploring the suggestive gaps that exist between his own biography and that of his father.
The film is frustrating in the end for reaffirming the traditional blockbuster’s allegiance to human perseverance.
Derek Jarman’s 1990 film isn’t without hope that we can regrow a paradise.
Beautiful loneliness, as the film suggestively reveals, is a texture that Frank knows all too well.
The film goes through its motions too quickly for its imagery to convey the irrepressible force of provocation.
Many of the selections at this year’s festival were genre films, or, at least, exhibited notable genre-adjacent elements.