TIFF Review: ‘Greed’ is an Unsubtle Movie for Unsubtle Times
Starring Steve Coogan as a billionaire who is literally named “Rich,” Greed cannot be accused of being a subtle movie—but then, these are not subtle times. Reus...
Mark Asch
TIFF Review: ‘Coming Home Again’ Finds Wayne Wang Flexing His Atrophied Formalist Muscles
Crazy Rich Asians having opened the spigot on the previously untapped audience for Asian-diasporic considerations of family and multicultural identity, Joy Luck...
TIFF Review: Golshifteh Farahani Listens in the Therapeutic ‘Arab Blues’
The original French-language title of Arab Bles is Un divan à Tunis, and true to the echo of Chantal Akerman’s psychotherapeutic meet-cute A Couch in New York, ...
TIFF Review: ‘About Endlessness’ Finds Roy Andersson’s Mood of Free-Floating Pathos Exquisitely Rendered
“What should I do now that I have lost my faith?” is the question that animates About Endlessness; this being the new film by Roy Andersson, it is delivered in ...
BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘Sunrise/Sunset’ Gazes on NYC as a Foreign Metropolis
The story of filmmaking in New York City is incomplete without consideration of the foreign-language films that are regularly made here. Such films—off the top ...
BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘The Hottest August’ is an Expressive, Expansive Portrait of Summer in NYC
Where better than New York City to make a structuralist film? Cities are iterative, their street grids diagrams of theme and variation, and New York most of all...
ND/NF Review: ‘Suburban Birds’ is a Harmonious, Intriguing Debut Feature
Something is causing the ground to shift underneath a new Chinese suburb in writer-director Qiu Sheng’s intriguing, adept debut feature. High-rise towers are li...
ND/NF Review: ‘Sauvage/Wild’ is a Visceral, Contrived Look at a Man Pushed to Extremes
Sauvage/Wild opens with a gay hustler in a doctor’s office. As he discusses his ill health—his cough, his odd stomach pains—the camera, like the examiner’s hand...
