A 32-minute queer cowboy melodrama paid for by Yves Saint Laurent, Strange Way of Life is Pedro Almodóvar’s second English-language short and, like The Human…
It’s hard to be too critical of a work like I’m A Virgo, which so clearly has its heart in the right place. It’s a…
It’s 2023, and while movies barely exist anymore, franchises certainly do. Hence John Wick: Chapter 4, a film that brings the whole John Wick series…
White Noise regrettably sees Baumbach prioritize shallow spectacle and satire over human passions. “The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation,” eminent Car Crash Studies…
Armageddon Time is far from Gray’s best and can occasionally risk eye-roll liberal apologia, but the director is ultimately too smart a filmmaker to fully…
“Telling the truth can be dangerous business,” sing Lyle (Warren Beaty) and Hawk (Dustin Hoffman) in Ishtar (1987), words that seem especially true for Elaine…
Cousins’ latest The Story of Film entry largely trades in hyperbole, platitude, and bland observation, rendering it little more than a 150-minute trailer binge. For many…
It’s the stuff of a million shoddy programmers from Hollywood’s golden age and twice as many cheap exploitation films from the heydays of the ’70s,…
Both Sides of the Blade is a work of true entropy, a unique film in Denis’ oeuvre that leverages a newfound sense of languor to…