Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Carroll Ballard’sDuma has a mythical, nurturing resonance.
One more ’50s housewife role for Julianne Moore and a biopic on Betty Crocker can’t be too far behind.
The film is a joyous mash note to the events of May ‘68.
Campion’s film comes up short in never satisfactorily illustrating the importance or character of Frame’s writing.
Never Been Thawed is so convinced of its coolness that it even abbreviates its title to NBT.
The high-def video production Haze masks its profoundly romantic intentions within a claustrophobic J-Horror façade.
Can’t decide if you want to remake 400 Blows or The Piano?
The film’s pieces and killings are mostly unimaginative.
Are films capable of humanizing murderers without also invariably asking audiences to have compassion for the perpetrators?
Avi Mograbi ’s documentary trades in irony with a capital I.
The film is a haunting companion piece to Hany Abu-Assad’s forthcoming Paradise Now.
NYU film professor Michel Negroponte goes slumming in the Lower East Side.
Two thousand and five will go down in the festival’s history as the year when the movies got a little crappier and the celebrities got a little crabbier.
When scurrying about film festivals, even non-juried ones like the Toronto International Film Festival, it’s best to keep your eyes on the prize.
How unfortunate that this thriller at 40,000 feet comes so soon after the release of Red Eye.
L’Enfant’s swirling sense of moral chaos, sustained horror, and courage has not been seen since The Son.
Bubble oozes an anonymous contempt sadly consistent with Steven Soderbergh’s post-Limey artistic output.
Hou Hsiao-hsien is a master at conveying movement, progression, and a sense of the inexorable rotations of the wheel of time.
The “real” and the “reel” are virtually synonymous in Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu’s second feature.
The type of ineffective third-rate con job that simply turns the volume way up for explosions in order to elicit an audience’s jolted reaction.