Review: Curry Barker’s Obsession Turns Romance Tropes Into Terror
This article was written by Lauren Weiner. Ah, the age-old adage of unrequited love. It’s familiar to some people: to be young and dumb and smitten for someone close by, […]
Review: Filmmaker Olivier Assayas Takes on Russia in The Wizard of the Kremlin, Starring Jude Law, Paul Dano
There’s no escaping the truth that The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest work from the great Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Non-Fiction, Demonlover, Irma Vep series), is long, dense, complex, […]
Review: Fueled by Trauma and Rage, Is God Is Follows Sisters on a Mission to Heal
Everywhere The Monster goes, he leaves a trail of destruction in his path. Everything The Monster touches is damaged to one degree or another. Sometimes the damage is on the […]
Review: Independent Documentary The Chaplain & The Doctor Offers a Rare and Bold Glimpse into the Power of Faith and Compassion in Medicine
Not all things that have healing powers are found in medicine. That’s the lesson learned (I’d even say “proven”) from the spectacular and deeply moving documentary The Chaplain & The […]
Review: A Star-Studded Cast (of Sheep) Rounds Out the Charming, Heartfelt Murder Mystery The Sheep Detectives
Just when you thought the whodunit sub-genre of mysteries was going to begin and end with Rian Johnson’s Knives Out movies, we get director Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives. Based […]
Dispatch: Doc10 Film Festival Highlights Personal Stories From the Past
This article was written by Thomas Hodgkins The Doc10 Film Festival screened new and unreleased documentaries in Chicago from April 24 to May 3. Accompanied by panels with filmmakers and […]
Review: An Elderly Woman Finds Freedom On Her Own Terms in the Dystopic The Blue Trail
Brazilian cinema is having its moment just as Iranian, Taiwanese and Korean cinemas did at some point. But what happens after the flavor-of-the-month stops being the flavor-of-the-month? Answer: a select […]
Review: Adam Scott in Hokum is One of the Best Horror Movie Experiences So Far This Year
A churlish novelist named Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) arrives at a quaint, quite old hotel in rural Ireland, a place where his parents had their honeymoon. While he could be […]
Review: The Gang’s All Back for The Devil Wears Prada 2 in a Story About How the Publishing—and Fashion—Industries Have Changed
As I was experiencing the 20-years-later sequel to The Devil Wears Prada the other day, I found myself repeatedly astonished at how much I was enjoying not just the jokes […]
Review: Charlize Theron Goes Extreme in Apex, an Australian Battle of Survival
The opening scene of the new thriller Apex is one of the more memorable I’ve seen in a while. In the span of just a few minutes, we learn a […]
Review: Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel Star as Creative Partners at a Crossroads in David Lowery’s Mother Mary
Depending on where you stand, writer/director/editor David Lowery’s Mother Mary can be seen as a trippy relationship drama, a full-on psychological horror attack, a story about the lengths an artist […]
Review: In Michael Jackson Biopic, Michael Gets a Highlight Reel, Audiences Get the Greatest Hits, But No One Gets the Full Truth
When it comes to music biopics, I don’t require or expect historical accuracy—leave it to the documentaries to get everything right. What I do expect is to discover something about […]