The Upside is a movie so safe that it barely exists, like a pool so scared of people drowning that it aspires to little more depth than a wet spot on the ground....
If the movies have taught us something is that nothing good ever comes from dinner parties. So when the seven friends in Manolo Caro’s Perfect Strangers get tog...
While his last film Roman J. Israel, Esq. didn't earn as much acclaim as Nightcrawler, this writer found it to be a more fascinating, idiosyncratic characte...
Premiering nearly a year ago at the Berlin International Film Festival, I caught up with An Elephant Sitting Still at New Directors/New Films and hoped this...
It may be helpful to contextualize Buffalo Boys through the lens of colonization. This Indonesian riff on the Spaghetti Western is given cultural specificity th...
There are quite a number of memorable moments peppered through Ben Is Back, an impressively effective addiction drama written and directed by Peter Hedges, star...
While he reached international acclaim with Barbara and Phoenix, Christian Petzold's filmography is full of rich, enigmatic genre riffs that delight with su...