My favorite film from Sundance and probably my favorite of the year so far, director David (Pete’s Dragon) Lowery’s A Ghost Story, brings together the filmmaker’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints […]
Returning to the era of World War II Germany, Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel brings us the true story of a ordinary German citizen who did something few did; he fought […]
As spirited and seemingly out of control as The Little Hours gets, it also commits itself to the period and the religious doctrine of the time, and it’s that authenticity […]
Though it hadn’t seen nationwide release until today, The Big Sick is already all over the news. The film features Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani-born stand-up comedian who came up in the comedy world via our […]
Probably the place that makes the most sense to watch this work is on a monitor hanging in an art museum—a place where many of the manifestos on art being […]
This past Sunday was the halfway point of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks revival, which has been strange with odd times ahead of us promised. As we embark on the show’s second half, we wondered […]
There’s an organization in New York City, founded in 1997, whose mission is solely to present great films in great locations. Specifically, on rooftops. They are Rooftop Films, and every […]
Likely to be one of the finest documentaries you’ll see all year (and one likely to show up a great deal during awards season), City of Ghosts is the story […]
One of the most interesting things to watch over the course of the three most recent Planet of the Apes films has been the shift in focus. Rise of the […]
I learned something new while watching director Nick (Killing Bono) Hamm’s The Journey: there’s poetic license and then there’s “This story images that journey.” In other words, this isn’t what […]
The latest work from master documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War) is meant to mark the end of an era of sorts. Specifically, it’s the […]
In the last couple of years, there have been a fair number of films that have impressively and respectfully dealt with the subjects of grief and loss—more specifically, they deal […]