Writer-director Nicolas Steiner’s graduation film has nothing to do about moving on to new stages of life. Above and Below, his dramatized documentary, rather h...
My Big Night tells you what it is right up front: big with a capital "B," a maximalist extravaganza satirizing the day-to-day life on a show business set that h...
Advances in digital technology have now given filmmakers the chance to do things that would have been impossible just a decade ago. With this bold new power com...
If, within art cinema, there comes the instant gravitation to less the film than the name -- the all-powerful auteur that supposedly doesn’t have to bow down to...
The main character of Nitzan Gilady’s Wedding Doll is a common character archetype, but one that’s rarely given the opportunity to be a lead, and even more rar...
There's a bothersome element to films about fictional musicians: the quality of the original songs, and the suspension of disbelief required – scratch that, dem...
If one of the ‘90s Adam Sandler movies had a weird May-December romance with a ‘00s Apatow production, the ungainly, misshapen, sterile hybrid that is The Boss ...
There are endless canards about how grief dissolves all human rationality, and no small number of real-life examples of apparently inexplicable behavior to back...
Much like with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, the job of caretaker isn't an easy one in Mickey Keating's Darling. It should be: combat any prospective upkeep pr...
Nick Simon's The Girl in the Photographs seems to be a story reverse-engineered from its final image -- which, for a low-budget horror film, is an effective one...
