There is something to be said about the satisfying catharsis from a pure melodrama -- a movie that is so earnest and excessive in service to its genre conventio...
Jeremy Saulnier’s indie hit Blue Ruin, which won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2013 Directors' Fortnight and went on to enjoy a critically lauded international run,...
To be an actress and land a leading role in a Todd Haynes film must be a dream come true. With Safe, Far From Heaven, and his five-part miniseries Mildred Pierc...
Festival programming is more often than not fraught with ulterior considerations. Which is why so much is being read into symbolic placements such as the openin...
László Nemes' prodigious debut feature, Son of Saul, inhabits what Primo Levi called “The Gray Zone” in his essay of the same name: the reality of the Sonderkom...
With the recent Cate Blanchett-led tour de force that is Blue Jasmine and the delightful Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen has proven he still has the ability to p...
In the largely wordless opening of Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees, a man (Matthew McConaughey) drives to the airport and leaves his car in the parking lot with...
"This is the oldest skull I have," says Hans Rudolph "Hansruedi" Giger, displaying his macabre prize as the Oscar he won for Alien sits off-camera, collecting d...
The eminently idiosyncratic films of Yorgos Lanthimos revile the societal constructs that stifle and pervert human interaction. In laying bare these structures’...
In what could also be described as a horror film, Welcome to Leith is a truly terrifying portrait of a small town of 24 residents that one day receives an unwel...
