Swiss Army Man balances humor and death for lighthearted existential enlightenment...
The hook that will attract most people to Swiss Army Man is how former Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe fares playing a corpse for the length...
The Wailing can’t overcome storytelling issues to merit two and a...
For the first 30 minutes or so, The Wailing (Goksung), has its charms, but as the film wears on, those moments become more and more...
Neon Demon examines the superficial with the subversively superficial — a...
The manner in which the majority of media audiences value, perceive and consume beauty is something so deeply ingrained in our society, it’s hard to...
The Lobster offers brilliant satire of the corrupted expectations of human...
Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos burst onto the International film scene in 2009 with the disturbing, Oscar-nominated family drama Dogtooth. There was no way it...
Love & Friendship exposes the limits of manners in civility with...
American indie writer-director Whit Stillman returns with what may be one of the funniest movies to ever be sourced from 19th century English literature. Stillman...
Sunset Song expresses the loveliness of impermanence in one of this...
"There are lovely things in the world. Lovely that don't endure and the lovelier for that." The line is uttered more than once in...
River of Grass on blu-ray and Jesse Eisenberg on Kelly Reichardt’s...
Not long ago, director Kelly Reichardt's debut feature film, River of Grass (1995), underwent a restoration. We covered its run at the Miami Beach Cinematheque...
In The Measure of a Man actor Vincent Lindon commands screen...
With a title like The Measure of a Man, French writer-director Stéphane Brizé sets up the audience to consider a summary judgement. What makes...
Mountains May Depart presents beautiful meditation on hope misplaced — a...
After the rather rich but violent A Touch of Sin, China’s Jia Zhangke returns with something more intimate though no less critical of his country’s...
River of Grass captures snapshot of disaffected Gen-Xers in South Florida...
From its awkward sense of humor to capturing parts of nondescript South Florida that no longer exist, there are pleasures to be found in...