Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
George Hickenlooper’s fascination with the beast of celebrity reaches a gossipmongering low with Factory Girl.
The film shines an intensely human (and humane) light on the ongoing conflict in Iraq.
Trouble Every Day aches with spiritual dread.
The film is proof that liberal filmmakers can make movies that aren’t desperate manifestations of their political guilt.
The film is undone by its dogged focus on the selfish, adolescent protestations and rebellions of its me-first protagonists.
Severance has the unfortunate pedigree of being dubbed (by its maker, no less) as a cross between The Office and Deliverance.
David Lynch’s voice has a diminutive, nasal inflection. You can hear the Pacific Northwest’s gentility and echoes of a woodland youth.
Most movies operate under the the implied understanding that the camera represents “us,” the viewer.
Aleksei Balabanov’s matter-of-fact depiction of his protagonist’s exploits conveys the blunt harshness of post-Cold War Russia.
Harvest Time uses nostalgia as more of an emotional than intellectual device.
The film is a stilted but touching articulation of a Sarajevo suburb’s collective grief years after the Bosnian War.
“From the producers of Underworld” touts Blood and Chocolate’s poster, announcing the lame creative bootlegging to follow.
Epic Movie is something of a wake-up call to how low our collective standards have really become.
These films are not in production, except in my imagination.
Welcome to the rom-com in the age of Must Love Dogs.
Room 314’s creative impulses are an empowering example of do-it-yourself filmmaking.
The film’s wisdom about the world seems principally derived from innumerable coming-of-age tales.
Joaquín Oristrell’s Unconscious might have been called Sleuthing in the Time of Psychoanalysis.
If grief were as easily overcome as it is in Catch and Release, Prozac sales would be in dire trouble.
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning by AMPAS president Sid Ganis and actress Salma Hayek.