Jeff Nichols Talks ‘Midnight Special,’ Reducing Exposition, Faith, and Perfect Endings
We talk to Nichols about his script-writing philosophy, letting child actors do their thing, his love for car chases, and his upcoming period piece....
Michael Snydel
[SXSW Review] Everybody Wants Some!!
Near the end of his essay for the Criterion release of Dazed and Confused, Kent Jones writes, “ Linklater has a keen, poetic memory for exactly how we did nothi...
[Review] River of Grass
Kelly Reichardt’s River of Grass is a “lovers on the run” film, but the main characters aren’t lovers, and their version of the lam is spending a few days at a ...
[Review] Marguerite
Though she was popular nearly a century ago, Florence Foster Jenkins feels particularly relevant to modern art’s ongoing dialogue with awfulness as a version o...
[Review] Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
It’s startlingly easy to forget that America is still at war, and while the minutiae of the definition has shifted with the decades, it’s a persistent influenc...
[Review] Gods of Egypt
It’s tempting to want to give too much credit to Alex Proyas’ Gods of Egypt for sheer invention. Not since last year’s polarizing belly flop, Jupiter Ascending,...
[Review] Triple 9
John Hillcoat is going to make a great film someday. Each of his last three films (Lawless, The Road, The Proposition) have skirted this quality to various deg...
[Review] The Mermaid
Stephen Chow is the rightful successor to David Zucker and Mel Brooks. He doesn’t possess the same mainstream cachet, but the Chinese auteur has built a career ...
[Review] Risen
Modern faith-based filmmaking generally falls into two categories: dramatically inert contemporary parables and stubbornly reverential biblical adaptations. So...
[Review] Race
Stephen Hopkins’ Race focuses on Jesse Owens (Selma’s Stephan James), a legendary African-American runner who won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, ...
