P Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You November 8, 2021 P.S.H. I Love You: “The Master” is the definitive role of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s career We close out our year-long exploration of one of cinema's greatest artists with his mesmerizing turn as Lancaster Dodd.
R Categories Movies Reviews October 20, 2021 Red Rocket achieves lift-off with Simon Rex’s performance Writer-Director Sean Baker creates another deeply humanistic film of people bound for disaster in the Simon Rex-starring Red Rocket.
N Categories Festivals Movies NYFF 59 Reviews October 10, 2021 NYFF: Ahed’s Knee has style and righteous anger to spare Ahed's Knee, director Nadav Lapid's latest film, cannot match his best work, but it's far from a failure. It has style and anger to spare.
N Categories Festivals Movies NYFF 59 Reviews October 1, 2021 NYFF 2021: The Tragedy of Macbeth is a sparse, elegant take on the Bard Joel Coen steps out on his own & directs a powerhouse cast in an extra-dark version of Shakespeare's tale of ambition & absolute power.
N Categories Movies NYFF 59 September 24, 2021 NYFF 2021: Straight-faced or racy farce? Benedetta will never tell Paul Verhoeven returns with Benedetta, a film so open to interpretation, it risks losing meaning. We reviewed it at this year's NYFF.
N Categories Movies NYFF 58 Reviews September 23, 2021 NYFF 2021: The First 54 Years offers an incomplete account of Israeli occupation Avi Mograbi's documentary is a long, strident presentation on the military occupation of Gaza that does a disservice to the oppression he's highlighting.
P Categories Features P.S.H. I Love You September 13, 2021 PSH I Love You: The pitch-perfect scumbag from Punch-Drunk Love PTA's Adam Sandler romance sees the great Philip Seymour Hoffman play a loathsome sleazebag.
P Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You August 16, 2021 P.S.H. I Love You: repairing the world in Magnolia One of Philip Seymour Hoffman's finest moments has him playing a beacon of comfort and compassion.
S Categories Movies Reviews August 2, 2021 Stillwater is an empty shell disguised as insightful commentary Tom McCarthy directs a stoic Matt Damon in a film about America's role on the world stage, which ultimately says very little.
J Categories Movies Reviews July 28, 2021 James Gunn rescues The Suicide Squad with a raunchy, silly sequel DC finally recovers from its worst movie with a followup that leans into the irreverent comic-book mayhem of its source material (and its director).
