Suspiria by Greg Cwik 1.5 Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria is a funereal pseudo-realist drama about political upheaval and the violence of systems that's at odds with itself.
Monrovia, Indiana 4.0 by Chuck Bowen As always with Frederick Wiseman, it’s the quotidian gestures that haunt one in Monrovia, Indiana.
Burning 3.5 by Niles Schwartz With Burning, Lee Chang-dong extraordinarily obliterates the bifurcation between life and representation.
Life and Nothing More 3.5 by Pat Brown Antonio Méndez Esparza crafts a revealing portrait of life as lived under a regime of race and class oppression.
The Fog 3.5 by Chuck Bowen The Fog is pivotal to the cementing of director John Carpenter’s aesthetic.
The Greatest Horror Movies of All Time by Staff Horror resents platitude, but the good horror film insists on the humanity that’s inextinguishable even by severe atrocity.Read More
Richard E. Grant on Bringing Friendship to Life in Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Marshall Shaffer Grant discusses portraying persons who have good and bad in them.Read More
Shirkers by Christopher Gray Sandi Tan's view of what the original Shirkers represented, and what her new film should be, is surprisingly expansive.
1985 by Diego Semerene Adrian is too flat as a character, his plight too generic, for his tears to count as something other than a sentimental ready-made.
Johnny English Strikes Again by Derek Smith Johnny English Strikes Again seems almost hellbent on aiming for the lowest common denominator at every turn.
What They Had by Wes Greene One may wish that as the storyline pushes forward that it succumbed less to portentous melodrama.
Halloween by Keith Uhlich There’s barely a single scare in David Gordon Green’s Halloween that isn’t undermined by some forced bit of funniness.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Jake Cole The rapport between Richard E. Grant and Melissa McCarthy offers deeper pleasures than the main plot of Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Guilty by Keith Watson The Guilty is a taut chamber thriller dominated by Jakob Cedergren's flinty yet highly emotive visage.
Wildlife by Greg Cwik Wildlife is at once loquacious and laconic, a film in which simple words hold unspoken and unequivocal power.
Mid90s by Jake Cole Jonah Hill’s feature-length directorial debut, Mid90s, is a repository of contemporary indie trends.
The Price of Everything by Chuck Bowen The film understands that money is a defining element of art-making, whether or not we wish to admit it.
