Film Review: 'Paradise: Love' peels away layers perpetuated by Disney gloss...
The first part in what is bound to be a difficult if powerful trilogy to sit through, Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love patiently and subtly unfurls...
Plaza de la Soledad offers a non-judgmental take on prostitution —...
The new documentary Plaza de la Soledad is an artistic rumination on aging that presents interwoven stories of different low-income Mexican women who are...
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...
‘Compliance’ reveals horrific dimensions of social behavior – a film review
Before any second of action starts in Compliance, director Craig Zobel wants to make sure the audience knows something. Prior to a bizarre, stomach-churning...
Neruda blends fact and fiction for refreshing test of the biopic...
Last year, Chilean director Pablo Larraín made his English language debut with an unorthodox biopic on Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie uses strong performance, meticulous staging...
The Childhood of a Leader presents obscure yet potent portrait of...
The directorial feature debut by American writer/actor Brady Corbet offers an arcane psychological portrait of a little boy who grows up to become a fascist leader. The storytelling...
Fences‘ writing stands above all else in the movie version —...
Something becomes quickly apparent in Denzel Washington's version of August Wilson’s Pulitzer and Tony winning 1983 play: It's screenplay is stronger than its existence as a...
The dark stillness of ‘The American’
With the American, Anton Corbijn follows up his debut feature Control, a movie about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, with a thriller far removed...
Endless Poetry continues Jodorowsky’s reckoning with art and family via beautiful...
“Rejoice your sufferings. Thanks to them, you will reach me.” -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
That was one of the final lines in filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s previous...
Mistress America explores the power of friendship beyond ego with endearment...
Writer/director Noah Baumbach's insights into human behavior seem to grow more astute with every film he makes. Somehow he finds charms in the flaws of people and...