There are so many self-interpretations and meta moments in Clouds of Sils Maria, a puzzler that shows director Olivier Assayas evolving into a director of refin...
In an era where the aesthetics of animation uphold the crafting of a stunning amount of detail into the image, one of the most genuine pleasures to be found in ...
“The artist is a canary in a mine shaft. If Brezhnev had read Rudyard Kipling, he would never have gone into Afghanistan.” Director Aleksei German said this to ...
The world that opens X-Men: Days of Future Past is a dismal, barren wasteland, stacked tall with the bones and corpses of extinguished super-beings while chamel...
When an overused gag showed up for the third of about five times during Blended's runtime, the twenty-something college dude chowing down on his mall food court...
Goodbye to Language, an essay work by Jean-Luc Godard, is not the kind of thing one can simply write about without weeks or months of contemplation. The head is...
Let’s get one thing straight: The Artist was not an atrocity worthy of being labeled a war crime, no matter how much some made it out to be during Harvey’s ...
In Steven Knight’s Locke the whole wide world is reduced to the nighttime interiors of Tom Hardy’s car. For most films, this kind of gimmicky paring-down would ...
A lot of fires burn in Ryan Gosling’s Lost River, consuming the wreckage of houses left standing in America After The Recession. Those images can certainly be s...
“I can’t stop crying,” Sandra tells herself as she walks through her home. Her phone is ringing, and she needs her pills to calm down. Her fault is not that she...
