This was the year when the biggest artists on the planet spent more time than anyone’s patience would allow teasing albums that never came.…
It’s true, we didn’t really cover music all that extensively in 2015 (unless reviews of a 10-disc set of live Brad Mehldau material and a 4Minute…
There were times during this especially tumultuous year when it seemed as if the world at large was on the verge of collapsing. A…
For a while, it seemed like 2013 had front-loaded its highlights; many films making our Top 20 either played the festival circuit in 2012 before…
As the world’s sole “industry only” film festival, Cannes stands alone in that the first audiences to see each film are not a mix…
If we’re talking about a “golden age of documentaries,” as many seem to be doing these days, then we really should be talking more…
On Wednesday night, New York’s Film Forum unveiled a gorgeous digital restoration (courtesy Janus Films) of Roberto Rossellini’s masterful relationship drama Voyage to Italy. The…
Today marks the return of Walter Hill to the big screen—with the Sylvester Stallone-starring Bullet to the Head, the director’s first theatrically released film since 2002’s Undisputed.…
All one need do is look at the many and varied riches cinema had to offer in 2012 to disprove the crowing — yes,…
Originally published August 15th, 2011 One of the most important filmmakers of the last 30 years emerged from a country famous for its brutal…
Most of us are loathe to admit it, but the job of a film critic is, more often than not, that of a glorified…
Few genres lend themselves as well to a specific holiday as horror does to Halloween. Not every film of the genre directly connects with the holiday…