Skittering amusement and missed opportunity in French Exit
When there’s no money left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire. In this movie life’s greatest shame after all is being unable to...
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- Dec 5, 2020
Hillbilly Elegy bakes conservatism into the text
Ron Howard really leans into the elegy part of this adaptation of a NYTimes besteller for Netflix. The technically-proficient biopic rues...
- Dec 4, 2020
Review: On the Rocks
One can fantasize about how much Sofia Coppola was paid for this quick job or why she agreed to it. On the Rocks is a paint-by-number...
- Nov 10, 2020
Six in Paris is the original Paris je t'aime
In Six in Paris, an omnibus film from 1965, a slew of Nouvelle Vague/adjacent greats pack a wallop in just quarter hour segments. Each...
- Nov 4, 2020
Personal histories and societal burdens in Swallow
A blushing bride, burdened by domesticity sublimates her issues by turning them inward. Literally. She develops pica, gulping down...
- Oct 20, 2020
Clowning around: Jesus Rolls too merrily along
My first instinct is to say that Jesus Rolls was an insufferable waste and shunt it down the bottom of the "best however many films" list...
- Oct 3, 2020
NYFF 2020 review: The Woman Who Ran
There’s no escaping men, but there is always the cinema. This could be one way of summarizing the latest from the prolific Korean...
- Sep 19, 2020
NYFF Review: The Inheritance
An homage to La Chinoise by way of Black socialists in West Philly. Books, records, and films are not merely window dressing, but charged...
- Aug 28, 2020
Another Monday: Palm Springs and Vivarium
Cinema as we know it doesn’t really exist right now, but this turgid summer has brought with it a few new releases. None as timely,...
- Aug 8, 2020
Review: An American Pickle
What makes for an amusing satire on paper does not always translate to the screen. Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen) falls into a vat of...
- Mar 1, 2018
The Smell of Us: Larry Clark in Paris
What makes a movie exploitative? Not as a genre (exploitation films), but as an invective hurled by critics who deem the film or its...
- Nov 1, 2017
Review: A Most Violent Year
New York City. 1981. It is this most dangerous year in the city's history that earns the film its title in J.C. Chandor's urban tale of...
- Sep 1, 2017
Review: Mommy
The fifth feature from talented young filmmaker and Cannes favorite Xavier Dolan is his best-executed work, streamlined of the visual...
- Apr 1, 2016
Review: The Day He Arrives
Seong-Jun (Yu Jun-Sang), a former filmmaker, now reclusive to the countryside, treks through Seoul to meet an old friend, or so he claims...
- May 15, 2015
Review: The Double
Is Jesse Eisenberg not the perfect Dostoyevskian hero? The actor is best known to portray nerdy types, all the more awkward due to an...
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