It’s so straightforward, it’s disarming. A group of people sit around a table somewhere in Israel, some Jewish Israelis, others Germans or Austrians, all too young to remember the history they’re trying to reckon with and yet forced to reckon...
The Dead Don’t Die is undoubtedly the stupidest film writer/director Jim Jarmusch has made. It is half-formed, inconclusive, often free from motivation, repetitive without finding that zen space he’s best known for, and is relentlessly nihilistic about basically everyone and...
This review originally ran as part of our LA Film Fest 2018 coverage. Nick Corirossi’s astounding Deep Murder is such a thoroughly committed work of parody that its commitment is, in some ways, actually part of the joke. Take, for instance, the...
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” begins as documentary, proceeds as political comedy, climaxes as a live event, and concludes as the most laser-accurate indictment of the modern culture we’ve yet seen since neofascism...
