U Categories Movies Reviews March 24, 2022 Umma partially succeeds as a horror with texture For a while, the Zainab Azizi & Sam Raimi-produced title is on par with its skillful lead
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies Reviews March 21, 2022 The Portrait of a Lady sees Jane Campion paint agency, control, and desire Campion followed The Piano with a Henry James adaptation dedicated to the magnificently fraught question of desire or duty.
I Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies Reviews March 21, 2022 In The Piano, Jane Campion and Holly Hunter navigate silence Campion's multi-Oscar winner studies the thorns of speaking, silence, and desire through impeccable performances.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 20, 2022 SXSW 2022: To Leslie is familiar, but its eye is unflinching and its compassion deep Andrea Riseborough and Marc Maron shine in a study of a one-time lottery winner years after her life has gone bust.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 20, 2022 SXSW 2022: The Prank wastes a devilish turn from Rita Moreno The living legend's vicious physics teacher is the only part of this dark comedy to make the grade.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 20, 2022 SXSW 2022: Millie Lies Low hits some high notes against appropriately awkward storytelling One bad decision leads to another in this well-acted and sharply filmed comedy.
W Categories Movies Reviews March 20, 2022 Windfall is a chamber play that’s fun in the moment Netflix goes Hitchcockian in this collision of the classes.
X Categories Movies Reviews March 20, 2022 X offers up retro slasher sleaze with a meta money shot Ti West's deviously inventive porno-horror balances sick kills with an aching longing for the vagaries of youth.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 18, 2022 SXSW 2022: The Cow should be put out to pasture Winona Ryder is the sole saving grace in The Cow, an unnecessarily convoluted mystery with a distastefully archaic view of women & aging
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2022 March 18, 2022 SXSW 2022: Stay the Night is a pleasant Canadian romantic excursion Not quite as good as the films it mimics, Stay the Night still has several charms of its own