With an education system as corrupt and ineffectual as that of the United States, stories of real teachers making a genuine difference are few and…
The Russo brothers are now a brand unto themselves. Whether helming as directors or solely producing, there’s a certain “offensively inoffensive” blandness that has characterized…
Let’s imagine for a second the the potential recent states of mind of Wagner Moura and Greta Lee. Both are relatively fresh off some enormous…
The late Adrienne Shelly’s posthumous 2007 release Waitress was always an odd choice for a musical adaptation, but 10 years after its Broadway debut —…
Cinema has a unique capacity for depicting time, as we all know. But this plasticity — turning “time” into a physical ribbon of pictures and…
It’s a fair response for one to give less importance to mainstream directors when they downplay their themes or politics in interviews, for if the…
It’s a strange position Eric André finds himself in. For a few years, he was the great hope for a fringe oddball to slip into…
Filmmaker Julian Schnabel returns to a familiar topic with his In the Hand of Dante… sort of. The painter-turned-acclaimed filmmaker has dedicated most of his…
The release of a full-length, stop-motion animated film is a relatively infrequent occasion, given the amount of labor and resources necessary to produce one. I…
Ol Parker is no stranger to a feel-good star vehicle. He wrote The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel, and directed Mamma Mia! Here…
Chivalry is very much not dead in the modern world: just look at the title of Thea Sharrock’s latest, and be impressed by the double…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: after witnessing the senseless slaughter of her parents, a young woman barely escapes with her life and…
The current acclaim for Canadian cinema is, like many attempts to promote a new wave, a snapshot of a rising generation that aside from nationality…
Critic Filipe Furtado recently wrote a piece extolling the virtues of low-budget genre filmmaking, emphasizing how certain action specialists tend to compensate for a lack…
“What are the stats on shark movies? Still just the one good one?” That’s a direct quote from perennial funnyman Paul F. Tompkins, made during…
Sometimes you can tell right away that you’re in for a thoroughly generic bit of junk food, but that’s not always instructive of quality. Often,…
A severely schematic crime thriller that paints a rather stereotypical picture of the Brazilian underworld but is chiefly about how many long, unbroken, and overhead…
Joe Carnahan’s career has been relatively erratic since his still very well-regarded breakout feature Narc from 2002. Since, he’s mostly churned out gritty but generic…
I once carpooled from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to my small hometown in Northeast Ohio with a stranger. She was an attractive woman…
Throughout Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ documentary Cover-Up, Seymour “Sy” Hersh, claims that he does not psychoanalyze himself. The irony is that the legendary journalist…
Kim Byung-woo’s fifth directorial effort, The Great Flood, first shows An-na (Kim Da-mi) resignedly trying to quell her six-year-old son Ja-in’s (Kwon Eun-seong) insistent and…