L Categories Movies Reviews June 25, 2022 Lux Æterna is more art film provocation, with some witches thrown in Gaspar Noé serves up another slice of cinematic provocation, but this time feels a bit too self-indulgent in its supernatural metaness.
& Categories Anniversaries Movies May 17, 2022 “Day in, day out”: Control at 15 and loss of the self Anton Corbijn's biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis remains a tactful, fearfully accurate depiction of life while suicidal.
& Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Sundance 2021 February 14, 2022 “The Cursed” lacks bark and bite Sean Ellis' werewolf period piece is a humorless medley of conflicting approaches that somehow ends up dull.
G Categories Movies Reviews December 12, 2021 Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley has little behind the flim-flam The auteur's update of the 1946 novel is a film noir steeped in too much of the author's romanticism.
P Categories Movies Reviews November 18, 2021 Procession is a compelling but uneven look at the long, hard road to healing Robert Greene's documentary centers the pain of six men haunted by child sex abuse, but struggles to see past their trauma.
I Categories Movies Reviews November 4, 2021 In The Souvenir Part II, the protagonist discovers herself as an artist Joanna Hogg continues the quietly moving story of a young woman's recovery from abuse and finding solace in art.
L Categories Movies Reviews October 29, 2021 Last Night in Soho is nice to look at but not much else Edgar Wright's Giallo homage wants to say something about feminism but is too frothy and oversimplified.
N Categories Movies Reviews September 29, 2021 No Time to Die shakes up the Bond franchise but fails to stir Even as it makes bold steps toward the future, Daniel Craig's swan song as 007 feels like a frustrating hodgepodge of the films that came before it.
S Categories Movies Reviews September 18, 2021 St. Vincent meta-doc The Nowhere Inn offers up deconstruction for its own sake Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein play with the fuzzy lines between artistic identity and celebrity in ways that both entertain and befuddle.
C Categories Movies Reviews September 15, 2021 Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho is crooked and kind-hearted Clint Eastwood's latest boasts a strong central performance in a grand step up from his recent works despite its rocky script.
