“ Categories Anniversaries Movies Reviews November 9, 2021 “Barbie doesn’t have bruises” Sid & Nancy at 35 Alex Cox's Sid Vicious/Nancy Spungen biopic is harrowing, but his unsentimental eye and the picture's tremendous performances are indelible.
“ Categories Anniversaries Movies October 30, 2021 “You Don’t Know What Death Is!”: Halloween II at 40 Halloween II, the 1981 sequel, may be better than many of its successors, but that doesn't make it good.
A Categories Anniversaries Movies October 10, 2021 A Celebration Of Specialness: True Stories at 35 David Byrne's winsome wisp of a film didn't get the attention it deserved upon release, but its charms persist 35 years later.
N Categories Festivals Movies NYFF 59 September 29, 2021 NYFF2021: Belle: The Dragon and the Freckled Princess fuses spectacle with spirit Belle: The Dragon and the Freckled Princess may try to juggle too much, but its vision deserves to be seen on the big screen.
N Categories Festivals Movies NYFF 59 Reviews September 26, 2021 NYFF 2021: Bergman Island offers scenes from a creatively fractured marriage Mia Hansen-Løve's latest wrestles with the creative and romantic frustrations between men and women, with Ingmar Bergman watching mindfully overhead.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 19, 2021 TIFF 2021: Silent Night is a joyless, doomed slog Silent Night's admittedly intriguing blend of bleaker-than-bleak comedy and holiday spirit is undermined by noxious writing and characters.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Tribeca 2021 September 14, 2021 TIFF 2021: Jagged tells you everything you oughta know about Alanis Morrissette Alison Klayman's chronicle of the Canadian singer's rise to fame centers around her seminal 1995 album, and the trail it blazed for female artists.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 13, 2021 TIFF 2021: Naomi Watts tries to outrun disaster in the horrendous Lakewood Phillip Noyce and Naomi Watts team up for a preposterous, formulaic high-concept thriller that does nothing tasteful with its premise.
T Categories Festivals Movies TIFF 2021 September 12, 2021 TIFF: The Mad Women’s Ball is sadly far from a blitz The Mad Women's Ball, Melanie Laurent's adaptation of a novel about a young woman's incarceration in a cruel asylum, is disappointingly flat.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 11, 2021 TIFF: Listening to Kenny G is about as pleasantly inoffensive as his music Penny Lane's profile on the smooth jazz superstar can't quite muster up enough energy to make its explorations of his notoriety (good and bad) sing.
