Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
This kinky “cheating lovers” melodrama is drenched with his penchant for self-reflective wit.
The lush Therese and Isabelle presents a portrait of lesbian romantic bliss that’s refreshingly indifferent to the context of patriarchy.
As if Kevin Spacey weren’t enough of a pandering purveyor of cheap sentiment, along comes Beyond the Sea.
A Love Song For Bobby Long’s lead character is a dead person whose face is never seen but whose presence is very much felt.
Michael resonates strongly as not only one of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s greatest triumphs.
This is a thought-provoking and infuriating 35mm condensation-cum-summation of Godard’s multi-part video series Histoire(s) du Cinema.
Here’s one for the red states.
Maybe it’s still too early yet to be sentimentalizing this bygone political era, Mr. Stone.
National Treasure is a cornucopia of ridiculously over-the-top action, humor, and romance.
History is scant or purposefully blurred in Lou Ye’s abstruse Purple Butterfly, a war drama with Wongian aspirations.
With Seed of Chucky, Don Mancini finally admits his true love for camp and homage.
Frank Borzage positions his romanticism as a contribution to Hollywood’s anti-fascist crusade.
The film leaves the enduring impression that carnival barker Jean-Pierre Jeunet has run out of new ideas.
The film is not only true to the show’s zany spirit, but manages to sustain that zaniness for a whole 90 minutes.
Casshern at times evokes Dune’s intergalactic soap opera as filtered through the computer game aesthetic of Avalon.
With Born into Brothels, filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman redefine the term “photo opportunity.”
Bill Condon’s provocative, problematic biopic takes an unapologetically reverential stance in its portrayal of the 1940s sex research pioneer.
Lost Embrace remains a wearisomely intellectual observation of one man’s search for identity.
Truly an exercise in internal horror, the glossy Tale of Two Sisters could just as easily have been called What Lies Beneath.
This finger-wagging thriller empowers no one and punishes everyone.