Film Review: ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ may be cartoonish, but it’s...
Featuring an undercurrent of death, the looming menace of fascism and wrapped in a century’s worth of nostalgia, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel stands as...
A re-cap of a hectic half-attended, still impressive Miami International Film...
The Miami International Film Festival has just wrapped up another year of quality film premieres. Film for film, it may have featured the highest-quality...
12 years in the making: an interview follow-up with Samuel Beam...
If I don't seem to be writing that much about music here lately, it's only because I've been doing it elsewhere. Below, you will...
Film Review: ‘Like Father, Like Son’ looks deep into familial bonds...
With his latest film, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda adds another film to his oeuvre that closely examines familial relations and how the smallest efforts...
Film Review: 'Liv & Ingmar' reflects on one of cinema's most...
For lovers of foreign art house film, the collaboration between Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann stands as one of the...
Film Review: 'Stranger By the Lake' uses mysterious questions to drive...
Stranger by the Lake, the first U.S.-distributed film by French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie stands out as a strikingly confident work. His little-known filmography dates...
Film Review: 'Gloria,' living life without a compass
Black humor that is at once in touch with mortality, yet life-affirming is not an easy feat. In Gloria, Chilean director Sebastián Lelio achieves...
Film Review: ‘Lenny Cooke’ offers compelling lessons of a talented loser
In recent years, several sports documentary filmmakers have made some celebrated documentaries about winners. In 2008, you had two major ones: Harvard Beats Yale...
Film Review: ‘Her’ explores loner experience by deconstructing intimacy through hyper-real...
With Her, director Spike Jonze offers one of the strongest and most prescient films of his career. Using a delicate sense of humor and compassion, his fourth...
Film Review: 'August: Osage County' on Hollywood.com
Black Comedy is a difficult brand of humor to pull off. The line between what’s funny and sad or horrific becomes so slender many...