Review: Schultze Gets the Blues

Few films pay this close and considerate attention to the physical and emotional heartache of growing old and every frame of Schultze Gets the Blues is alive with this generosity.

Review: Nobody Knows

Kore-eda Hirokazu’s wonderful new film is a meditation on the solace, comfort, and rapture of familial togetherness.

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Review: Fear X

The self-consciousness of Nicolas Winding Refn’s direction complements the compulsiveness of Turturro’s character, but there’s really nothing to Fear X.

Review: Elektra

Substituting titillating triumph for tragedy, this adaptation of Marvel Comics’s knife-wielding knockout comes across as hopelessly blunted.

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Review: 6ixtynin9

The film’s deadly punchlines suggest the archetypal “cosmic joke” with more emphasis on the tragic side of the tragedy-comedy continuum.

Review: Emile

Unlike Faulkner’s Light in August, the film’s structure is less intricately maze-like and the stakes never feel too high.

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Review: Machuca

Though it skimps on historical details, Andrés Wood’s wonderful Machuca is nonetheless alive with contemporary resonance.

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