& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 17, 2020 “Falling Down” is a sizzling portrait of white male rage From Rodney King to Donald Trump, Michael Douglas' D-FENS remains the pluperfect case study for white grievance politics.
R Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 12, 2020 Reclaiming the queerness of “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” Gus Van Sant's queer Western was received with scorn by critics when it first came out, but its celebration of the abject deserves reconsideration.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month May 26, 2020 “Jason Goes to Hell” reinvents the Friday the 13th franchise, and not for the better Jason Voorhees tears his way over to New Line Cinema, who promptly cranks out an entry that warps his mythos for the worse.
D Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies October 24, 2019 Decency is Stifling in “The Age of Innocence” Martin Scorsese's scintillating period romance is a Victorian treatise on the sufficating gulf between desire and decorum.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 10, 2019 The Double Nostalgia of Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused” Richard Linklater's 1993 coming-of-age classic is a battle of dueling, complicated nostalgias around '60s youth culture.