Typically, calling a film a faithful adaptation of its source material can constitute praise. It’s a signal of approval, a fan’s casual imprimatur. It’s a…
Kansas-born actor and director Dennis Hopper had an incredibly illustrious but volatile career after debuting in Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause. Hopper worked with…
The marketing for Ryan Stevens Harris’ debut feature film Moon Garden has been very careful to center the hand-crafted nature of the endeavor — photographed…
The great Jia Zhangke is listed as a co-producer on Kavich Neang’s new film White Building, a sensitive coming of age story that nonetheless occasionally…
There’s always at least a modicum of interest stirred up when well-known actors take a turn in the director’s chair. More often than not, these…
With the flood of murder podcasts and documentaries seemingly never-ending, true crime as a genre is in need of a serious makeover. While such subcategories…
“The place? New York City. The time? Now: 1962. And there’s no time or place like it.” Down With Love, Peyton Reed’s 2003 technicolor pastiche…
The team of director Dominik Moll and screenwriter Gilles Marchand broke onto the scene with their first collaboration, 2000’s With a Friend Like Harry… The…
There’s a great movie about a group of women getting together to bond and overcome trauma while going on an adventure that eventually turns into…
A high-angle shot of a yakuza and his girlfriend continues following the woman overhead as she crosses a street to a school swimming pool. The…
In theory, a modern-day update of 1992’s White Men Can’t Jump isn’t exactly heretical as far as remakes are concerned. Aside from the admittedly memorable…
In hindsight, Paul Schrader’s career has been a repeated jettisoning and reappropriation of extraneous artiness, new off-kilter filmic shapes of inscrutable quality emerging at an…
In most movies, nature is portrayed as a still image, a landscape painting shown twenty-four times per second whose every detail is within God’s design.…
One of the highlights of the 2022 Berlinale’s Encounters sidebar was Ashley McKenzie’s Queens of the Qing Dynasty. Following the Canadian filmmaker’s first feature, Werewolf,…
What else is possibly left to say about the Fast & Furiouses? Fans excitedly devour each new installment with an oxymoronic combination of total earnestness…
Aside from Tom Hanks, it’s hard to think of an actor more beloved and respected by both the general public and his fellow peers than…
Giving Birth to a Butterfly, the feature-length debut from director/co-writer Theodore Schaefer, opens with a middle-aged woman laying out two seemingly identical christening gowns, preparing…
It’s a film like Monica that offers you space to question the legitimacy of our major film festivals’ competition branches, a film where only industrial…
Love Again sounds like a title where novelty goes to die, and the resulting film certainly does nothing to deviate from such lowered expectations, even…
A wonderfully realized portrait of the alienation experienced by both a mother and her child, Italian filmmaker Emanuele Crialese’s brilliantly colorful and touching L’Immensita revels…