“So it returns. Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” — James Joyce, Ulysses As the second…
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 about…
Jean-Luc Godard was, and still remains, a giant — present as a critic and filmmaker from the halfway point of the last century all the…
The last image of Jean-Luc Godard’s last film, Scénarios, is one of the most heartbreaking in his long, storied, notorious, glorious, defining, essential career. It is of…
Scénarios The last image of Jean-Luc Godard’s last film Scénarios is one of the most heartbreaking in his long, storied, notorious, glorious, defining, essential career.…
The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from Strike Germany. We will be withholding…
We’ve just passed the one-year anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard’s death via assisted suicide. Those closest to him suggested his advanced age and ailing health led…
Strange Way of Life A 32-minute queer cowboy melodrama paid for by Yves Saint Laurent, Strange Way of Life is Pedro Almodóvar’s second English-language short…
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…
We’ve decided to do something a little different this year for our 2019 (so far) lists; instead of a formal poll, were using this as…
Jean Luc-Godard’s career came to an end in 1967, with Weekend — only for it to rise again out of the ashes, and for the filmmaker…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service or into some…
At least for awhile, the new essay film by the pushing-90 French auteur Jean-Luc Godard plays like a liberally abridged version of his magnum opus, Histoire(s) du cinéma. The…
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival, it has to be said, looks as if it may be one of the strongest slates since our site first…
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…