My biggest takeaway from Christina Kallas' The Rainbow Experiment is that teachers really don't get paid enough in this country. Think about new technologies, e...
In the grand scheme of things, teenage love affairs–together with all the raptures, jitters, devastations associated with them–probably don’t count that much. B...
The only thing worse than never getting your happy ending is having it within grasp and realizing you cannot accept it. To see salvation and turn around knowing...
In the year of the Swedish master’s 100th birthday, Margarethe Von Trotta wraps a belated, posthumous gift with her Searching for Ingmar Bergman, a portrait of ...
The Marvel title sequence—red comic book pages flipping at high speed to reveal a corporate logo whose cultural saturation is on par with the Golden Arches—come...
There's a line that our actions can cross when our desire to help others turns into helping ourselves. And it's often difficult to see when you're the one falli...
The rarest of items can claim a collector's soul if he/she isn't careful. When that item — something thought to be merely myth — is held in your hands, you neve...
The latest cinematic look at Pablo Escobar is titled Loving Pablo for a reason: it's based on Colombian journalist Virginia Vallejo's book Loving Pablo, Hating ...
I can think of no better way to kick off the Halloween season than with a celebration of frights and friendships — oh, and bloody murders. Razor sharp, with a c...
A modest meditation on memory and grief turns into loopy pseudo-mythical environmentalism in Naomi Kawase’s Vision, her fourth film in five years. Transplanting...