‘Bardo’ review: Inside a grand, spectacular vision, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu makes his most personal film to date [B+] | Telluride Film Festival
When we first find Silverio Gama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), renowned Mexican journalist turn successful documentarian, he is having a wild set of dreams. From floating... Read More
Reviews
‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ review: Laura Poitras’ profound portrait of artist and activist Nan Goldin is one of year’s best films [A+] | Venice Film Festival
Who is Nan Goldin? For people who are not photography enthusiasts, this name probably doesn’t sound familiar. I had personally never heard of her, so... Read More
‘Un Couple’ review: Frederick Wiseman’s first ever ‘fictional’ film imbues Tolstoy in his strange, artful ode to a woman [B] | Venice Film Festival
Un Couple has been described as legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s first fictional, feature-length film. In truth it is neither. The 64-minute series of monologues performed... Read More
‘Tár’ review: Maestra Cate Blanchett tears up the rulebook with her best work in years in Todd Field’s wildly entertaining and expressionistic return [A-] | Venice Film Festival
Cate Blanchett has never been a bad actress, but she has rarely been this good. To say she “stars” in wildly entertaining, surprisingly funny drama... Read More
‘Love in the Villa’ review: Charming leads Kat Graham and Tom Hopper can’t save unfunny and cliché-ridden rom-com [D+]
Amidst the hundred million-dollar limited series and relentless stream of middling action flicks, it seems that Netflix does, in fact, seem to still have time... Read More
‘White Noise’ review: Noah Baumbach’s 1980s family drama builds up steam and lets off a whimper [B] | Venice Film Festival
Edgier and more expressionistic than anything we’ve seen from a director whose commercial sensibility can sometimes border on cautious, White Noise is a markedly ambitious,... Read More
‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’ review: Tatiana Maslany flexes muscles and comedic chops in a show that leans into its camp value [B]
Of the many superheroes to populate the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Hulk is far from the most objectively polished, with mayhem typically surrounding the temperamental... Read More
‘Bad Sisters’ review: Murderously funny siblings make for an extraordinarily acted and addictive mystery-comedy [A-]
When someone dies, there’s usually a degree of mourning that occurs, even if the deceased wasn’t the most pleasant or tolerable person. When the dead... Read More
‘Superbad’ at 15: Still a stupid, fantastic cinematic coming-of-age gift [Retrospective]
To pick an all-time favorite high school film is a deeply personal process, perhaps more so than other film genres. No one makes it out... Read More
’13: The Musical’ review: Low stakes drama makes way for a Bar Mitzvah extravaganza filled with fun and frivolity [B+]
There’s a disappointing tendency for movies about being Jewish to be surface-level and not really dig into actual substantive practices or traditions. While that may... Read More
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