'Closed Curtain' continues Iranian filmmaker's abstract expression in art despite ban–...
It’s funny how the First Amendment gives U.S. citizens the right to be jerks. They can protest homosexuality at soldiers’ funerals, harass women at...
Vincent Moon retrospective in Miami — A review
I've been a fan of Vincent Moon since 2010, however, I had never heard about him until last week. Before then, I had spent countless hours...
'Boyhood' is Linklater's masterpiece on youth, existence and humanity
It could have just been written off as some gimmick. But in the hands of director Richard Linklater a film shot over 12 years becomes something...
Roger Ebert's life and death cuts to core of humanity in...
It takes a courageous sense of perspective for a filmmaker to get to the place necessary to make a review-proof documentary, and director Steve...
'Begin Again' makes for an endearing follow-up in the shadow of...
Sometime past the halfway point of Begin Again, ex-record executive and occasional drunk Dan (Mark Ruffalo) tells his new discovery, the British singer-songwriter Gretta...
An apocalyptic train ride: 'Snowpiercer' – a film review
Snowpiercer is an enthralling, fast-moving sci-fi action film about a post-apocalyptic world where the few survivors of a frozen planet earth are the occupants of...
'Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case' explores Chinese artist's conceptual protest against...
It has been almost two years since Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry hit theaters (read my review). For a comprehensive film on the Chinese dissident...
'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....
'Borgman' invites viewers to bring morals to its grippingly enigmatic narrative
A good mystery movie does not always fit the classic whodunit model, with all questions tidily wrapped up like the ending of a “Scooby...
Jodorowsky heals psychic wounds with fabulist recreation of childhood in ‘Dance...
Although cinema is filled with singular voices, few have the distinct style emblematic of the auteur. Alejandro Jodorowsky is one such director. After a...