Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The Invention of Lying sets its sights high before settling for comfortable lovey-dovey convention.
David Foster Wallace’s masterful prose doesn’t translate to cinematic language, and I doubt it would work in any context other than the page.
Though not among Jacques Rivette great films, Around a Small Mountain shares a lot of qualities with the director’s best work.
There’s a lot of underlying potential here, but there seems to have been no one around to whip it into shape.
Are the Coens jokers who tread on despair, or tragedians with a penchant for death’s-head humor?
This intertwined tale of people struggling on society’s fringe plays like bad community theater.
More Than a Game tells one of those “you can’t make this stuff up” true stories for which documentarians live.
Watching Loren Cass is a little bit like getting punched in the face.
Lebanon is a good old-fashioned Sam Fuller war picture, all capital letters and tight close-ups.
Intimate Enemies dully critiques the international war on terror via the Algerian war.
American Journey works only sporadically as a supplement to the cultural moment it chronicles.
Some people’s stories are so interesting that a book or a movie adaptation alone simply won’t suffice.
During what generation did we decide that genocide just isn’t genocide without ominous strings and slow cross fades?
The film is very lively, somewhat thrown together in that loose yet aggressively visceral Abel Ferrara style.
Hadewijch ultimately seems just as calculated and mechanical a pose as Bruno Dumont’s previous efforts.
I can forgive Corneliu Porumboiu’s film for its didacticism because it feels well-earned.
Ever wonder about the ancestors of the murderous jocks in Funny Games?
The assiduous storytelling gives a satisfying and disturbing glimpse at how one man’s obsessive, perfectionist drive.
Lebanon may as well have been titled What It’s Like Inside a Wartime Tank.
The Red Riding Trilogy proves that HBO has no monopoly on quality small-screen drama.