Film Review: ‘Bonsai’ breathes life into art
Chilean director Cristián Jiménez mixes a heartfelt appreciation for literature and young love in the ingeniously crafted Bonsai, capturing how tightly life and art...
Godard’s ‘Film Socialisme’ and the entrancing “music” of visuals
Jean-Luc Godard is one of those rare filmmakers who can exist as a genre unto himself. His oeuvre has helped partially define the French...
It Follows strips horror to its core — a film review
Sometimes you have to strip back the horror to make a horror movie work. It Follows does that to thrilling effect, keep gore to a...
Miami Film Festival movies for lovers of experimental film: Cocote and...
For the more adventurous cinephile, the 35th edition of Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival has a few selections worth seeking out. They may...
International Online Film Critics' Poll announces nominees for 4th biannual awards
The International Online Film Critics' Poll has announced its nominations for its 2013/14 survey. I was honored to have been asked to participate for...
‘The Trip to Italy’ makes no apologies for being a sequel...
Following their 2011 film The Trip, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and Michael Winterbottom reunite again for The Trip to Italy, which follows the same format as...
Dheepan winds inner turmoil with tense intimacy — a film review
Shadows obscure life throughout Dheepan, in the drudgery of scraping a living together from nighttime street vending to cleaning out dank common areas in a French...
You Were Never Really Here presents dark, taut thriller that never...
You Were Never Really Here could be one of the most intense action movies by an art house director since Nicolas Winding Refn gave...
Film Review: 'Camille Claudel 1915' – madness and the deprived artist
French director Bruno Dumont works in an elliptical manner. Though he consistently works with powerful visuals, his work requires an audience with an open...
IndieEthos Insiders Tour 3: Toni Erdmann uses humor as lifeblood —...
Below the surface of its brilliantly timed screwball humor, the German Oscar contender Toni Erdmann holds a tender story of staying true to family....