The only complaint this writer has with Mr. Scorsese, a “film portrait” by Rebecca Miller, is that it is only five hours long. The child…
Good News opens with members of the Japanese militant communist group Red Army Faction — armed with pistols, katanas, and a bomb — hijacking Japan…
Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert is a sort of un-Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall: everyone at the Sex Pistols concert in 1976 started…
I Know This Much is True is the 2020s best work of narrative art so far, unjustly buried by its just-exactly-wrong release over the course…
Based on the life of acclaimed 20th century lyricist Lorenz Hart, Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon has as much in common with one of the filmmaker’s…
Despite its almost apologetic title, the latest feature from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi bears a highly incendiary load. Not quite a call to arms against…
Needless to say, deliberately titling your film Bone Lake will automatically trigger suggestive connotations about the film’s potential content. Will the feature consist of a…
Critiquing the directorial efforts of well-known actors is trickier than it seems. For example, it’s impossible to ignore, especially at a festival as prestigious and…
The ceiling caves in at the outset of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, the Rose Byrne-starring second feature from Mary Bronstein, her first…
For an age in which the threat of nuclear annihilation is so unmistakably present, it strikes one as quite strange how so few contemporary filmmakers…
Vijay Sethupathi is certainly the most versatile and interesting, not to mention basely pleasurable, “superstar” still kicking in the world cinema. His early performances for…
In his 1998 monograph on gay male identification with the Broadway musical, Place for Us: Essay on the American Musical, D.A. Miller identifies the archetypal…
Göran Olsson’s Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 is a remarkable documentary, if not purely for its access to decades worth of newsreels, interviews, and…
Following the critical success of 2018’s The Wolf House, directoral duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña have returned with The Hyperboreans, a papier-mâché melange of…
“Why do you want to dance?” a character asks Moira Shearer’s aspiring ballerina in Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes. “Why do you want to…
After the massive success of John Milius’ Conan the Barbarian in 1982, an avalanche of cheap sword-and-sorcery pictures flowed forth, eager to cash in on…
As Solvent commences, we’re dropped into a GoPro’s eye view on the setup of Gunner S. Holbrook (voiced by Jon Gries) and his private recovery…
In retrospect, maybe it doesn’t seem all that weird that 1982’s TRON has turned into a nostalgia-coated franchise with a lot of barely-baked ideas about…
Raoul Peck’s latest documentary certainly has timeliness going for it. There is of course a rise of authoritarianism around the world, a set of schemes…
Crispin Glover has long been a fixture of eccentricity and intrigue in Hollywood, carving out a niche for himself with a career — and personal…