T Categories Movies Reviews June 22, 2022 The Black Phone finds chills in the pre-Stranger Danger era Scott Derrickson keeps a silly premise above water thanks to a fast pace & a creepy villain turn from Ethan Hawke.
& Categories Reviews TV January 16, 2021 “The Good Lord Bird” is an absurd abolitionist Western Ethan Hawke chews the scenery in a historical drama that gleefully plays around with the truth.
& Categories Movies Reviews August 20, 2020 “Tesla”‘s flights of fancy match the subject of its illumination In his latest anti-biopic, Michael Almereyda drenches the life of the famed inventor in layers of enticing artifice.
& Categories Columns Movies P.S.H. I Love You July 13, 2020 “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” remains a skillful sum of its parts A puzzle of a thriller, Sidney Lumet's final film slides its script and performances together with ease.
& Categories Movies Reviews July 2, 2020 “The Truth” is okay, but it won’t set you free Hirokazu Kore-eda's first film outside of his native Japan is a light, star-studded family affair of modest potential and diminishing returns.
C Categories CIFF 2019 Festivals Movies October 18, 2019 CIFF 10/18: “The Truth”, “Clemency”, “The Twentieth Century”, “Tremors” Today's CIFF dispatch includes family drama The Truth, death-row issue film Clemency, Guatemalan queer drama Tremors, and the gonzo Twentieth Century.
B Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month August 25, 2019 Boyhood: You Either Get it Or You Don’t Both a "masterpiece" and a "self-indulgent bore," Richard Linklater's passion project captured the painful fleetingness of life.
L Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 17, 2019 Looking Back at the Rotoscoped Dreams of “Waking Life” Richard Linklater's 2001 rotoscope experiment gets lost in philosophical aimlessness.
T Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies August 11, 2019 The Daring Ambiguity of the “Before” Trilogy Linklater's Before Trilogy - Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight - is an eye-catching crystallization of how relationships change over time.
A Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month August 1, 2019 August’s Filmmaker of the Month: Richard Linklater In honor of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, we take a closer look at the prolific indie pioneer.
