Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Someone who hasn’t seen Nine Queens may find something to like here.
Another week, another film to add to an already sizeable pile of anti-Bush polemics.
The film lacks for the warmth of Turning Gate and Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors.
Mean Creek slots itself nicely in that catalog of macabre coming-of-age stories like River’s Edge and Stand by Me.
Finally someone gets to respond to O’Reilly without being told to shut up.
Consider Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno’s many acts of defiance as calls to arms.
It’s got more false-façade performances than you could ever hope for.
The film is a 92-minute, color-coded mood enhancer boiling over with provocative ideas and unsettling imagery.
Little Black Book is proof positive that the path to hell is paved with good intentions.
The highlight of the film may be an 11-year-old Jonathan Caouette’s remarkable performance in front of the camera as a pregnant and abused junkie.
Motorcycle Diaries flatters gullible white liberals with its Cliffs Notes evocation of social problems abroad.
Bernard Rose creates a startlingly effective shocker that gains power upon further, sleepless-night reflection.
By film’s end, you weep for Oharu because you hope that in death she will be able to find what she was looking for in life.
Imagine the final reel of Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl spread out to an impossibly long 106 minutes.
Writer-director Guy Maddin’s Cowards Bend the Knee is paradoxically retrograde and ultramodern.
From the opening shot of A Dirty Shame, it’s obvious that Todd Haynes isn’t the only one giving Douglas Sirk a hummer.
The past is constantly being interrupted in the film, intruded on by a more pressing and paranoia-stricken present.
The film is a high-camp mélange of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and B.F. Skinner’s Walden Two.
Silver City is about a prefab political puppet and the Haliburton-like corporation that pulls his strings.
Festival Express only delivers, at its best, a mild contact high.