Documentary filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West are on a roll, a roll that began four years ago with their Oscar-nominated work RBG, a profile of the now-late Supreme Court […]
It’s a credit to Leonard Cohen, the great Canadian author, poet, songwriter and performer, that his song, “Hallelujah” plays across a significant portion of Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s new […]
In a time when the new Minions movie is dominating the box office with Top Gun-like astronomical numbers, Netflix gives us an animated adventure film that is creatively rich, with […]
In a few short years, director Skye Borgman has quickly become one of the finest documentary filmmakers, specializing in true-crime cases that are so strange, twisty and complicated (Abducted in […]
I won’t waste your time comparing Thor: Ragnarok to the latest tale of the God of Thunder, Thor: Love and Thunder, because to do so would be to imply that […]
Sometimes a really great idea for a film can be hampered severely or even undone completely in its execution. The new indie feature 18 1/2 is hardly the first film […]
Based on her 2009 novel of the same name, Suzanne Allain adapts Mr. Malcolm’s List for the big screen in the first truly original Austen-ite period romantic comedy in ages. […]
A slightly gross treatise on white privilege, writer/director John Michael McDonagh’s (War on Everyone; Calvary) The Forgiven takes place over a long weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, […]
Perhaps the best Pedro Almodóvar film that Pedro Almodóvar didn’t actually write or direct, Official Competition in fact comes from co-directors Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn and skewers the filmmaking […]
Admittedly, I’ve given up on keeping track of not only the stories of the Despicable Me/Minions movies, but also how may of them there even are. I believe the latest, […]
There are times when the world doesn’t make a lick of sense. And then there are times when it all comes together with the help of a one-inch-tall shell with […]
It’s an old story: an ambitious young man leaves the provinces for the big city to seek fame and instead finds heartache, corruption and disillusion. In Lost Illusions, Lucien (the […]