Film Review: 'Museum Hours' poetically melds life, death and art
In the 1958 comedy by Ronald Neame, the Horse’s Mouth, the film’s main character, an artist named Gulley Jimson, portrayed as equal parts guru...
Film Review: ‘Only God Forgives’ is a problematic, distancing art film
Note: This is an in-depth analytical review, several weeks after the U.S. premiere of this film. It may contain spoilers.
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After breaking...
Film Review: 'Blackfish' presents brutal picture of orcas in captivity
Blackfish trains its lens on killer whales in captivity and the cover-up of tragedies involving one orca in particular who seemed to turn psychotic:...
Film Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’ fuels heartache with intimacy
Early this year, I noticed fervent statements on Twitter regarding the next “big” film out of Sundance: Fruitvale. Later re-titled Fruitvale Station, the film had been...
Film Review: 'The Hunt' examines influence of the crime on judgement
As one can expect from the director who made a name for himself with the Celebration, Thomas Vinterberg’s the Hunt (Jagten) feels like a brutal roller coaster...
Interview with stars of Almodovar's 'I'm So Excited' in 'Cultist'
Once again, work for “Miami New Times” is taking up my free writing time, but just as the band I interviewed last fits the...
Film Review: 'Augustine' reaches for feminism in the 'hysterical' era
If you want to see how hard it must have been to exist as a single woman in 19th Century Europe, Augustine presents a...
Rare avant-garde 16mm screening event from Miami-Dade Library Film Archives this...
Miami has seen its fair share of art house waves ebb and flow. Today, Miami is at the height of a renaissance with the...
Film Review: 'Laurence Anyways' brings glam & intimacy to transgender tale
Focusing on 10 years in the life of a man who has decided to undergo a transformation into a woman, Xavier Dolan handles the...
Film Review: 'The Attack' offers intimate statement beyond a great conflict
An amazingly ambitious film, the Attack, reaches for a larger statement beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with an intriguing, multi-layered story concerned with identity on...