'Ida' comes to South Florida in 35mm; My review appears in...
Ida, the new film by Pawel Pawlikowski, already stands as a favorite film of 2014 for this writer. I've seen it about three times already....
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...
My top movies of 2010
I decided the best time to reveal the best movies I saw last year is ahead of the Oscars®, as I am skipping the...
Miami Film Festival Day 2: Voice Over reveals gargantuan obstacles of...
It's not easy to communicate when you're family, and Chilean director Cristián Jiménez finds a compelling way to illustrate that in Voice Over (La Voz en Off)....
Film Review: ‘To Die Like a Man’
Few foreign films or even American-made indie films take as harsh, deep and subtle a look at the complexities of the lives of gay...
Announcement: IndieEthos on sabbatical for 2020
This site is now on hiatus. This writer is taking a sabbatical from writing about film, music and art in this or any other...
Film review: ‘A Royal Affair’ brings alive tension of Age of...
Too often, period films are often dismissed as “costume drama.” This reductive perspective does a disservice to a genre of cinema that, in the...
‘Le quattro volte’ skips the dialogue to tell precise and profound...
If you got the Tree of Life (unlike Sean Penn), time now to upgrade to Le quattro volte. The film may be from Italy,...
Reflecting on 2015, Part 4 – Best Films according to Hans
Mid-year, I teased my working lists of The best films of 2015 … so far. It's finalized. Four films had their premieres at either Miami Dade College's Miami...
‘Into the Abyss’ examines the effect of killing on the living
The great documentarian and filmmaker Werner Herzog has no shame in revealing an agenda. But he does not push it or sentimentalize it. His...