Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Unforgivable Blackness proves that, no matter what punches were thrown at Jack Johnson, no one ever wiped that triumphant smile off of his face.
The Untouchables is a violent, masculine, swaggering recreation of Al Capone and his bootlegging industry.
Yann Samuell mainlines into Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie for inspiration but can scarcely muster a contact high.
Eulogy’s spectacle of nastiness doesn’t indicate a family’s greater, largely unspoken love for one another.
The film is a tart, observant look at the seductiveness of revenge and its generally empty aftertaste.
Éric Rohmer’s dialogues are in peak form, always building in their back-and-forth volleys to spine-tingling epiphanies.
Jean-Luc Godard takes his audience on a journey from heaven to hell, from image to imagination
Both love story and folk tale, Tropical Malady intersects eros with cultural traditions.
Kings and Queen is at once Arnaud Desplechin’s most straightforward and scattershot creation.
Keren Yedaya is clearly interested in the role of women in Tel Aviv, but the city remains anonymous.
A student of Patrice Chéreau and Éric Rohmer, Agnès Joui sees the humanity in everyone.
Throughout, Danielle Aribid vividly parallels a country’s social unrest with a girl’s coming of age.
Despite its black sense of humor, Samuel Fuller’s frank vision of combat leaves no room for schmaltz.
Anyone who can powerfully evoke the ecstasy of lovemaking with a shot of gently falling snow is a talent to watch.
Unintentionally amusing, the spit-and-polished Ladder 49 likens a firehouse to a Barbie Dream House and likens heroes to saints.
Much like the never-seen store chain of its title, David O. Russell’s film is content to wallow in obscurantist quirk and flash
Shark Tale made me want to immediately start polluting the ocean.
To most children of the 1980s, Creepshow 2 is a dorky reminder of cinematic joys past.
Is there a single culture the animation department at Disney hasn’t white-washed for the masses?
Murray Lerner’s reverential film carefully dissects the evolution of Miles Davis’s trailblazing sound.