Venice Review: Bones and All is a Bloody Horror Romance That Rips Your Heart Out
The last narrative feature Luca Guadagnino directed was a 2018 remake of Suspiria, and his angle was vicious—a dark, mangled body horror so carnal it leaves th...
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Venice Review: Athena is Romain Gavras’ Brutal, Breathless Magnum Opus
Is reinvention overrated? For at least 45 minutes, Athena (named for the fictional area where the film is based as well as the goddess of wisdom and war) threa...
Venice Review: Master Gardener Closes Out Paul Schrader’s Great Contemporary Trilogy
There is a paradox at the heart of Master Gardener. In their respective worlds—one of abstinence and iconography; the other of money and risk—priests and gambl...
Venice Review: A Couple is a Low-Key, Personal Experiment for Frederick Wiseman
This year’s Venice Film Festival competition has not been short on bloat. Todd Field, Noah Baumbach, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu all turned in sprawling works th...
Venice Review: Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio is a Purposefully Oblique, Mysteriously Murky Religious Drama
Something has happened in Abel Ferrara’s working life that aligns him with Stanley Kubrick’s later career journey. The latter shot all his features from 2001 o...
TÁR Concept Album, Featuring Hildur Guðnadóttir and Cate Blanchett, Will Arrive in October
With Todd Field's first film in sixteen years finally arriving in just about a month, the release is thankfully getting a few more bells and whistles than your...
Venice Review: The Boisterously Beautiful Bardo Finds Iñárritu Navel-Gazing Into the Abyss
Silverio Gama (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is, as many artists like to imagine themselves, a disheveled-genius type. Once an independent journalist in his hometown o...
Loving Highsmith Review: Ripley Writer Revealed in Personal Documentary
"My life is a chronicle of unbelievable mistakes." So writes Patricia Highsmith, the acclaimed author of Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, The Talented ...
12 Films to See in September
After perusing our massive, 60-film, two-part fall preview, there shouldn't be too many surprises on our first monthly highlights of the season. While Septembe...
New to Streaming: Funny Pages, Studio Ghibli, James Wong Howe, Fritz Lang, and More
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...