Safe to say few movies this year engender more excitement than Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Serpent's Path, a remake of his superb, bad-vibes 1998 thriller. Though an ex...
No secret that we love The Beast. But it's perhaps not even the best Bertrand Bonello film released in 2024. For more than two years I've been a major advocate...
There's a perfect world in which Richard Linklater's Hit Man, a through-and-through crowdpleaser suffused with wit and style, gets a theatrical release and is ...
So's the power of Quentin Tarantino that an aborted project will carry more weight than most filmmakers' fussed-over opuses. Though it's been almost a year sin...
If Criterion24/7 hasn't completely colonized your attention every time you open the Channel––this is to say: if you're stronger than me––their May lineup may b...
I was lucky to see the new restoration of July Rhapsody, an oft-forgotten 2002 drama that represents a murderer's row of Hong Kong cinema: directed by Ann Hui ...
Death, taxes, and one-to-three Hong Sang-soo movies per year. I much prefer the latter, and it's nice knowing we're just a month out from In Our Day, his 30th ...
Cruise. Criterion. Just a matter of time, really, until the world's premier movie star made his way into the collection. Smart money might not have been on Pau...
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Brooklyn Center for Theatre ResearchThe latest installment of my secret-screening series Am...
Is Aggro Dr1ft the future of cinema? Not in any quantifiable, justifiable sense. Does it have anything to say? I admire Harmony Korine using infrared images an...