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...
A Ghost Story offers beautiful meditation on love after death —...
It feels like a public service obligation to first note that A Ghost Story is not a horror movie. The third film by Writer-director-editor...
Family Drama and Secrets in Landline are not enough to make...
Landline is a family drama set in Manhattan in the 1990s. As the title alludes, this is a time before cell phones, so things...
Dunkirk deserves all the technical prizes at next year’s Oscars but...
Here it is, July, and the movie to beat in next year’s Oscar race for all the technical awards will be Dunkirk. After his...
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is sci-fi at...
As flashy and colorful as the special effects may be in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, they can't cover up the...
Lost in Paris is a quirky tale of finding love but...
In a snowy province of Canada, Fiona (Fiona Gordon, who also co-directs the film with her husband Dominique Abel) works as a librarian against...
The Ornithologist is a beautifully shot existential adventure film – a...
The expanse of storytelling in movies can be so impressive. Portuguese indie filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues has long demonstrated a talented knack for breaking the...
The Big Sick offers quaint comedic drama on love, prejudice and...
Based on his experiences as a first generation Pakistani man living in the U.S., Kumail Nanjiani and his girlfriend, Emily V. Gordon’s script for...
The Beguiled charms in atmosphere but falters on plot — a...
With The Beguiled, writer-director Sofia Coppola has created a movie undeniably rich in atmosphere but terribly clumsy in plotting. Depending on what you want...
On Andrei Tarkovsky’s science-fiction masterpieces Solaris and Stalker
We need Tarkovsky more than ever nowadays. His science fiction movies may seem quaint in the science-today where so many people are sucked into...