Thessaloniki Review: Suspense Beats Solemnity in Jordan’s Oscar Entry Inshallah a Boy
In Inshallah a Boy, a new film from Jordan, a young mother faces some grueling events. It's set around the bustling capitol, Amman, a place where temperatures ...
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Review: A Noble if Too-Clinical Portrait of Women Talking
Generally, when I enter the small sauna room at my local YMCA after a workout, I’m prone to eavesdrop (it is a confined space, after all) on a group of men opi...
Thessaloniki Review: Camping du Lac is a Bewitching Ode to Stories and Storytellers
A film enamored with stories and with the art of telling them, Éléonore Saintagnan’s Camping du Lac opens with the director addressing the audience the way a r...
Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain Review: Laughs Wear Thin in Tired Adventure
Please Don’t Destroy, the comedy troupe comprising NYU alums Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy, broke through the haze of hopeful comedians with q...
DOC NYC Review: Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled Examines a Legend’s Self-Doubt
If a legend like Liv Ullman can have imposter syndrome, what does it mean for the rest of us mere mortals? Throughout Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled, it's ...
Napoleon Review: Ridley Scott’s Historical Epic is an Exhausting Wikipedia Scroll
In a conversation with Empire Magazine, Ridley Scott promised a cut of his latest movie Napoleon that is over four hours long and “fantastic”; this would be an...
Thanksgiving Review: Eli Roth’s Holiday Slasher Serves Up Simple Thrills
You don’t make a movie called Thanksgiving without mentally preparing for critics to label it a turkey. I suspect that pun will be dispensed quite a lot in rev...
DOC NYC Review: The Lady Bird Diaries Offers a Portrait of a First Lady, In Her Own Words
Throughout the five years in which Lyndon B. Johnson was the President of the United States, his First Lady––Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson––took note of eve...
DOC NYC Review: Merchant Ivory is a Nifty Chronicle of Independent Pioneers
The best moments of Merchant Ivory––a documentary directed by Stephen Soucy concerning the legendary production company––feel like their most-successful pictur...
The Stones and Brian Jones Review: Nick Broomfield Tells the Forgotten Story of a Rolling Stones Founder
In the weeks before the release of The Stones and Brian Jones, Nick Broomfield’s documentary about the first casualty of the Rolling Stones’ rise to prominence...