There’s a scene in Alex Garland’s Civil War, in which a man is shot in the heart and killed. The man is from Hong…
For a film with such a coy name, we necessarily prepare, consenting or not, to play a game of comparison: why did James Benning…
As Shadow of a Doubt opens, Joseph Cotton’s uncle Charlie is running away from the police. He has been lying down in his cheap…
Watching Fabrice-Ange Zaphiratos’ Blood Beat in 2025 is a wild sensory experience. It has the (ahem) beats of a slasher while boasting atmospheric sound…
Why do we even watch this movie in the first place? This is one of those scary movies, isn’t it? For years we hear…
The year before he starred in Witness — Peter Weir’s acclaimed drama about a cop sent to protect a young Amish boy who witnesses…
William Tell is at once large and small. It is an ambitious adaptation of 19th-century theatre, and it is a bloodthirsty action movie; it is…
“The art of interpretation is virtually one of translation,”[1] wrote Susan Sontag in 1964. But there is an impulse to resist interpreting that which…
Put ecclesiastical matters aside, just for the moment, and ask the question: what is a cathedral? What distinguishes a cathedral from a parish church?…
I was driving to see the cinema’s latest love story and stopped at a red light. On an empty street, on a cloudless night,…
‘Behold,’ the Fairy cried, ‘Palmyra’s ruined palaces! Behold where grandeur frowned! Behold where pleasure smiled! What now remains?’ — “Queen Mab,” Book II, 109-13…
Jean-Luc Godard was, and still remains, a giant — present as a critic and filmmaker from the halfway point of the last century all…
‘Tis the season of list compilation. All through the land are lists being compiled: the annual effort to determine the canon of Christmas Movie…
The Return of Godzilla was a haunting revival for Toho’s famous franchise. When released in December of 1984, the film interrupted Godzilla’s nine-year absence…
The first two Will Hindle films that were shown in the complete recent Chicago retrospective Unknown Nostalgia (organized by InRO contributor and Tone Glow editor-in-chief Joshua Minsoo Kim)…
In folklore on film, the peasant girl laboring for ungrateful people has been situated in several variations of Cinderella. One of cinema’s most active…
In the recent Motion Over Pictures: Two Evenings of Fred Worden retrospective at New York’s Spectacle Theater (co-organized by Paul Attard and Stephen Cappel,…
Last night, I had a dream. A marquee glowed orange-tungsten. Large black letters: JURASSIC PARK. I was there with my son Aphid. We were…