2016-08-25 13:44
★★★ 3/4
A much-needed sense of humility permeates Rodrigo Garcia’s Last Days in the Desert, a respite from the disingenuous self-importance found in most bombast… Read More
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2016-05-20 23:26
★★★★ 4/4
How does a filmmaker, pace Godard, go about making sense of an incomprehensible tragedy? What should be his or her approach? On the one extreme… Read More
2016-04-25 22:16
★★★½ 3.5/4
I’m wondering how many synonyms for the word “seedy” I’ll need to get through this review. Probably aren’t enough in the En… Read More
2016-04-09 18:10
★★★★ 4/4
If Robert Bresson had ever made a film about drugs, it would likely have been as stark and austere as Christine, a 52-minute masterpiece created by Alan Cla… Read More
2016-03-28 20:22
★★★ 3/4
Part staid courtroom procedural, part trenchant exploration into the justifications of wartime brutality, Bruce Beresford’s 1980 drama Breaker Morant f… Read More
2016-02-26 22:33
★★ 2/4
I’m surprised in the trouble I’ve had separating Kyle Alvarez’s film about Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 college student pseudo-prison experiment f… Read More
2016-02-24 21:09
★★★★ 4/4
Although poet-filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad and her landmark documentary short from 1962, The House Is Black, which helped pave the way for the Iranian new… Read More
2016-02-15 19:15
★★ 2/4
Edith Cushing lays it bare early on in Crimson Peak: “It’s not a ghost story—it’s more a story with ghosts in it. The ghosts are a metaphor for th… Read More
2016-02-13 19:19
★★★★ 4/4
At one point during the remarkable train sequence late in the film—this elliptically poetic episode runs approximately nine minutes, considerably lo… Read More
2016-01-24 19:10
★★★ 3/4
Perhaps the most outré of this year’s crop of outrage cinema, Adam McKay’s The Big Short turns economic catastrophe into bitter farce, at times… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
★★★½ 3.5/4 In another life Cary Fukunaga could’ve been a nature documentarian. He possesses an innate ability to turn the natural world into an intrinsic part… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
★★½ 2.5/4 Although sports movies generally offer one of two endings for the protagonist—win or lose—the true outcome is seldom so binary. Face it; in Hollywood… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
★★★½ 3.5/4 Co-adapted by Tanaka Sumie and Ide Toshirô—who, together or separately, collaborated with director Naruse Mikio on some of his finest films of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
★½ 1.5/4 Pretty much the soulless, uninventive update I was dreading, The Peanuts Movie replaces the tentative melancholy of Charles Schulz’s work with a relentlessly upbe… Read More
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