Can You Bring It is a sumptuous, intelligent work about the beauty and infinity of the creative process. Following the evolution of the titular groundbreaking dance piece, D-Man in the Waters, in the three decades since its release, Can You Bring It weaves together…
Unlike its subjects, Rebel Hearts is too conventional and not daring enough. Uplifting and unashamedly radical, Rebel Hearts, the sophomore effort from Pedro Kos, traces the history of the shockingly progressive Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from their start as a rebellious…
It’s nice to see Fox back in the horror saddle, but Till Death‘s stronger elements too often fall victim to its thriller conventionality. Is it finally happening? Is Megan Fox finally getting the horror career she deserves? After a revelatory performance in Karyn Kusama’s…
Good on Paper wittily upsets rom-com conventions, but doesn’t produce much substance beyond this initial fake-out. Following a string of stand-up specials and a sketch show, comedian Iliza Shlesinger has once again teamed up with Netflix to create what is maybe the pair’s biggest…
Prime Time is all the more terrifying for its refusal to pathologize its lead in any easy way. Set on the eve of the millennium, with the impending possibility of Y2K just hours away, Jakub Piatek’s Prime Time follows Sebastian (Bartosz Bielenia), an enigmatic…
Given its material, When Worlds Collide should be a far more impressive visual document. Among the marquee names of the 1980s New York art scene, a tragically low number are still alive today. Iconic figures like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat pioneered artistic movements…
Sweat swims in the grey areas of internet intimacy to thoughtful, sometimes unsettling results. For as long as we’ve held any conception of celebrity, it’s always come tethered to one question nagging at the public mind: are they really just like us? Whether borne…
This latest Conjuring effort displays a bit more awareness of precisely where its strengths lie, resulting in a lot of dumb fun for those happy to ride its low-stakes wavelength. James Wan might be the undisputed king of quiet-quiet-BANG horror, and his The Conjuring…
RK/RKAY plays like something of a witty, warm riff on the absurdist stylings of early Charlie Kaufman, and pulls it off. Anybody who has tackled a creative project of any size will know just how quickly things can get out of hand. Budgets walk an…
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit has plenty of heart and restraint, but viewers will likely wish for a bit more ambition. Based on the semi-autobiographical children’s book of the same name, Caroline Link’s adaptation of Judith Kerr’s When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit tells a story…
