Armageddon Time is far from Gray’s best and can occasionally risk eye-roll liberal apologia, but the director is ultimately too smart a filmmaker to fully…
The Last Word from Your Editor, Sam C. Mac: With the 2010s officially over, the time seems right for another departure: after 12 years (with…
It’s been a year of confrontation at the movies, as the domestic and international conflicts of the past several years have reached varying degrees of…
The finest films of 2017 simultaneously offered us a respite from, and a deeper reflection on, our fraught and fractured social and political realities. In…
Deviating from protocol a bit with our timing (we swear we know when the halfway point of the year is), the following list is nonetheless our…
There were times during this especially tumultuous year when it seemed as if the world at large was on the verge of collapsing. A whole…
Two Lovers is the fourth feature from James Gray, whose efforts haven’t been unreservedly praised since his 1994 debut, Little Odessa, and who has been…