& 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.
& Categories Features Movies June 18, 2019 “Dead Poets Society” and the Freeing, Frightening Passion of Youth On the film's thirtieth anniversary, we look back at Peter Weir's intricate drama and the inherent tragedy of seizing the day.
