A fabulistic streak tints the proceedings of The Wolf, the Fox, and the Leopard, David Verbeek’s ninth feature, with a sheen of greyscale anonymity…
In this gluttonous age of streaming, where art of all forms is cannibalized by the film industry in pursuit of content, the more particular…
Cinematographer Bill Pope must have done something awful in 2022. Maybe he ran over some studio executive’s cat or perhaps his children beat out…
Natchez Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film…
Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival,…
Married directorial pair Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have consistently risked being hit by the type of criticism that considers “postmodernism” a dirty word.…
Without raising too much of a film culture racket, the Predator films have endured for nearly four decades, steadily turning out a new entry…
As much as critics have lapped up Egoyan’s description of Exotica as an “emotional striptease,” lauding the film for gradually unveiling the layers behind…
Relay Director David Mackenzie has had a fascinating career; in the past, we’d likely consider him a talented journeyman, the sort of solid professional…
Director David Mackenzie has had a fascinating career; in the past, we’d likely consider him a talented journeyman, the sort of solid professional who…
The author Hunter S. Thompson is widely credited with founding the “Gonzo journalism” movement, which is informally defined as incorporating subjective language and satire…
“Hope is the dream of those who are awake,” muses Nélida (Soledad Pelayo) to her daughter, Elisa (Martina Passeggi), in a display of gentle…
Fans of Nora Ephron be warned: Materialists has been grossly mismarketed. Fresh off the success of her Oscar-nominated Past Lives, it seemed puzzling that…
It’s worth beginning where a piece like this usually doesn’t, because Munich is the kind of movie Steven Spielberg usually doesn’t make: in a…
After This Death Movies about the music industry can be a tough pitch. Selling a superstar artist as just that demands either the savviest…
Movies about the music industry can be a tough pitch. Selling a superstar artist as just that demands either the savviest ear for commercially…
“You sound cool talking out your ass,” Bruce (Anthony Oberbeck) quips to his best friend and roommate, Simon (newcomer Tristan Turner), a struggling filmmaker.…
There’s much to like about Victoria Franco’s Twelve Moons, a serious-minded drama about loss and addiction that avoids easy platitudes and simplistic moralizing. That is,…