Hustle doesn’t seem to know how its characters fit into the complicated web of sports, media, and finance that defines the NBA.
The director discusses how his film functions in the larger conversation of queer cinema.
Director Jeremiah Zagar’s powers of observation eclipse his feel for expressionism and melodrama.
Ukraine Is Not a Brothel ultimately exists in a representational space similar to the rad-fem tactics of Daisies or, even, Spring Breakers.
It leads one to only wonder about this compulsion to delve directly into an artist’s life for answers to the art when it’s all mere speculation in the end.