Love the Coopers is as problematic as its title. Does it mean love from the Coopers or is it a statement that someone loves the Coopers (perhaps its narrator --...
Ideally, big-screen takes on massively successful musicals will do two things. First, and most obviously, is capturing the pleasures of an original work, making...
The first hurtle of making a documentary about any legend is to avoid being a hagiography. One of the most pervasive criticisms of reverential docs is the parad...
Writer/director Nathan Silver’s latest tale of an improvised family doing its best to wreck itself is one of the year’s most uncomfortable watches. A character ...
Michel Franco is careful. The writer/director doesn’t want to exploit sensitive, emotionally fraught topics through lurid attention to detail or an overwrought ...
Conceived well before Slate’s Forrest Wickman would argue against subtlety, The 33 could be a poster child for his essay: here’s a film that doesn’t beat around...
By the Sea begins with Angelina Jolie Pitt and her real-life husband Brad Pitt driving a sports car to a resort in France. The sumptuous buildings, the aerial c...
Mumblecore and the period drama have (somehow) come together, and the result is far better than people who are generally allergic to the subgenre may expect. On...
In pop-culture consciousness, non-governmental organizations usually crop up on the margins of stories. A granola college student will pay lip service to the he...
There will soon be many documentaries about the migrant crisis in Europe, but it’s unlikely that any of them will be quite like Those Who Feel the Fire Burning....
