Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Has the collective growl in the belly of a world in crisis finally made it to movie theaters?
Robert Mitchum doesn’t remotely overshadow the film’s first-rate ensemble of character actors.
Burma VJ is a haunting reminder that the news can still be heroic.
Yôji Yamada’s masterpiece of balanced sensibilities is grounded in the sensitive performances of its cast.
Wendy Keys succeeds in limning an engaging portrait of an artist and mentor who’s spent a lifetime affirming the power of art to inform and delight.
The film merely reaffirms mainstream perceptions of New World Order theorists as disenfranchised crackpots.
The film never leaves France, but it’s implicitly global.
The bigger the story gets the more value seems to seep out of it.
A geriatric summer adventure in which the appearance of action takes the place of the real thing.
Bart Mastronardi’s psychological horror film Vindication owes plenty to the complex mythologies of Clive Barker novels.
The domestic New York rendered in The Big Shot-Caller has not appeared so seductively hazardous since Spike Lee’s heyday.
Three screenwriters, four counting the original TV writer, but you can’t tell.
Sergei Loznitsa assembles an intuitive portrait of 1950s life in the Soviet Union from archival state-produced films.
Oh, O’Horten, how wincingly affected you are.
Forty years after the fact, Ken Jacobs is at it again.
It’s a caper film that doesn’t generate much excitement around its capers and a comedy that would be much funnier if it paid more attention to detail or established a more personal perspective.
It’s only at first glance that the film seems like nothing more than a deliquescent rewrite of The Postman Always Rings Twice.
To the annals of romantic stalker comedies, the appallingly creepy Management adds pretension and may blaze new, jaw-dropping territory.
For once, bigger is better. And, in this case, oddly more personal.
I’ll be interested to see how strongly the public reacts to this reimagining.