F Categories Movies Reviews September 20, 2023 Flora and Son goes in one ear and out the other just too often John Carney’s latest tries to mix kitchen sink drama with feel-good pop to uneven results.
E Categories Movies Reviews July 30, 2023 Everybody Loves Jeanne falls just on the right side of millennial quirk Céline Devaux’s hyperactive rom-com has enough creativity and engagement to distract from its unevenness.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 16, 2023 The Doom Generation plumbs the outsider consciousness to the bitter end Gregg Araki dissects how identity turns to apathy in his hyper-stylized second part of the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy.
C Categories Movies Reviews June 7, 2023 Chile ’76 deftly mixes domestic drama and political thriller Manuela Martelli explores the ripple effects of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in her first film, a sly, evasive genre mashup.
T Categories Movies Reviews May 11, 2023 The Starling Girl is too shy to flourish Eliza Scanlen elevates her role as a lapsing fundamentalist in a drama that ends up too literal to stick out.
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.
T Categories Features Movies December 17, 2021 The Top 25 Films of 2021 From Annette to Zola, we break down the best movies of the year.
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.