BIFF Review: ‘Caretakers’ Takes a Manipulative Look at Mental Health Issues

Dr. Leigh Waters (Angell Conwell) has a line of dialogue towards the end of Caretakers that I was desperate to hear since the beginning. She reminds the med stu...

Busan Review: ‘The Enigma of Arrival’ is a Dreamy Dramatic Thriller

As China is set to take over North America to become the single largest film market within the next years, more attention will/should be paid to its formidable ...

‘Venom’ Review: Tom Hardy Enlivens a Fractured, Directionless Superhero Movie

The Marvel title sequence—red comic book pages flipping at high speed to reveal a corporate logo whose cultural saturation is on par with the Golden Arches—come...

Review: ‘A Crooked Somebody’ Depicts the Myriad Ways We Take Advantage of Others

There's a line that our actions can cross when our desire to help others turns into helping ourselves. And it's often difficult to see when you're the one falli...

Review: ‘Smallfoot’ Offers a Politicized Look at the Importance of Truth

It might be hyperbolic to call Smallfoot the most dangerous film of the year, but it wouldn't necessarily be wrong. Yes, there's a wholesome message at the back...

TIFF Review: The Lie is an Overwrought, Silly Drama with High Emotions

All kids grow up. Some parents grow apart. And the ramifications of this combination can have drastic effects. Jealousies might crop up to cause rifts while nos...

TIFF Review: ‘The Predator’ Brings Hard-R Carnage and Forced Humor

Writer Shane Black had a good year in 1987. He burst onto the action screenwriting scene with Lethal Weapon, co-wrote the cult classic children versus Universal...

Cynthia Nixon, Robert Altman’s ‘Tanner ‘88,’ and Running For Public Office Now & Then

We look back at the groundbreaking HBO mini-series and Cynthia Nixon's prominent role, ahead the Democratic Primary....

Robert Greene Talks ‘Bisbee ’17,’ the Need for New Documentary Forms, and ‘Her Smell’

The filmmaker parlays his strengths for documentary portrait and narrative whats-it into what may be his densest work to date....

56th NYFF Retrospective & Revivals Sections Include Films from Fassbinder, Oshima, Mambéty & More

Following their impressively varied Main Slate section and Projections lineup, the full slate for Retrospective and Revivals at the 56th New York Film Festi...