Strawberry Mansion playfully and delightfully draws parallels between the creative agency of dreams and the waking creativity of filmmaking.
Perhaps as a result of her attempting to avoid all matter of clichés, not just of genre, Amy Seimetz revels in vagueness.
The film is more interested in how people respond to extreme emotional crises than to everyday life.
Throughout Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s film, one may wonder if and when someone will wink at the camera.
Celia Rowlson-Hall’s Ma has had its subtext dragged kicking and screaming to the surface by its writer-director.
The film convincingly furthers Perry’s continuing championing of DVD as the more evocative alternative to Blu-ray’s crisp digital polish.
Alison Bagnall and her talented leads appear to effortlessly achieve a tone that’s tricky to sustain, one that abounds equally in absurdism and empathy.
Every beautiful, resonant image in Alex Ross Perry’s new film is fraught with neurotic, diaphanous riddles.
A hollow bit of violence exposes the film’s sense of empowerment as nothing more than a harmless sheep masquerading in wolf’s clothing.
Charles Poekel displays an assured directorial hand and a modest, appealing, even droll sensibility throughout.
Theoretically, the subject of Queen of the Desert could hardly be more Herzogian in nature.
Christmas, Again opens with a series of diffuse, colorful lights, suggesting the electronic video art of Nam June Paik in their abstract arrangement against a black background.
Ti West has bitten off more of a premise than his classically modest barebones approach to horror movies can presently chew.
The Police Officer’s Wife had easily the most walkouts of any film I saw at the festival.
Amy Seimetz’s intoxicating slice of genre revisionism earns its “neo” prefix, envisioning a brightly sinister world where desperation is the new normal.
Rather than express any emotional truth of its own, Bad Fever merely adopts an attitude that resembles one.
Another character study concerned with stunted would-be artists facing romantic uncertainties that force them to contend with the idea of mainstream adulthood.