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Two Pianos In an old interview with David Ehrlich, filmmaker and critic Kent Jones recalls a conversation with Arnaud Desplechin in which the great French director told him “a script is a very small thing. The movie is the thing.” It's a wonderfully succinct summation of Desplechin's interests as an artist; there's always a story,
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Eight Bridges James Benning is a master of moments. Over a career that spans five decades and twice as many modal deviations, Benning abstracts the…
February Reviews Week of February 1 Spotlight Pillion — Harry Lighton February 6 by Robert Stinner Read Review Genre Views The Strangers: Chapter 3 —…
Krakatoa If one were to conjure an impression of the apocalypse, it might be in the heart of sound — a detonation so vast and…
January Reviews Week of December 28 Genre Views We Bury the Dead — Zak Hilditch January 2 by Daniel Gorman Read Review Week of January…
Moonglow Writing in e-flux Journal on Klute’s semicentenary, Isabel Sandoval discussed in detail the immeasurable influence of Alan J. Pakula’s neo-noir crime thriller — especially…
Nightmare’s Advice Renaud Després-Larose and Ana Tapia Rousiouk, along with their frequent collaborator Olivier Godin, represent an alternative stream of Quebecois cinema, one that is…
First Light Nearly five years ago, Filipino-Australian filmmaker James J. Robinson hit the headlines after breaking into his alma mater St Kevin’s College, Melbourne’s elite…
Chronovisor Even when Jorge Luis Borges wrote screenplays, they weren’t necessarily “Borgesian” — not, that is, distilled into the particular pleasure of following one of…
December Reviews Week of November 30 Blockbuster Beat Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — Quentin Tarantino December 5, 2025 by Ethan J. Rosenberg Read…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
November Reviews Week of November 2 Streaming Scene Frankenstein — Guillermo del Toro November 2, 2025 by Ethan J. Rosenberg Read Review Spotlight Die My…
Gone are the days of awards contenders being packed like sardines into December’s release calendar. Instead, in recent years October has become the prime launching…