David Robert Mitchell is a nostalgic. His debut feature, The Myth of the American Sleepover, paid tribute to such teenage dramas as American Graffiti and the wo...
With Like Father Like Son (2013), Our Little Sister (2015), and After the Storm (2016) all premiering one after the other at the Cannes film festival and The Th...
I have unfortunately not seen any of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s earlier work, and am therefore lacking a basis for comparison. Still, after the lavish praise that was ...
There are many things of which we may not necessarily need reminding that, nevertheless, must not be forgotten. Trust me when I say it is in no way a spoiler to...
Halfway through writer-director Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s cinephile coming-of-age story A Paris Education, a girl confronts a budding filmmaker: “You seem out of tou...
The Wikipedia entry for Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) describes the condition as "a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exaggerate...
3 Faces is the fourth film Jafar Panahi has made in defiance of a 20-year filmmaking ban the Iranian government issued against him in 2010. The first three were...
The biggest critical gripe coming out of the first Deadpool was that its attempts to subvert the superhero genre were squandered by being a superhero film. What...
In the same way that keeping your top five movies on-hand can save a not-insignificant amount of time and brainpower over the course of one's life, it’s just as...
Gaspar Noé has probably never been likened to Lazarus before – or any other saint, for that matter – but he’s fully earned himself the comparison with Climax, w...
