Bruce Thierry Cheung’s Don’t Come Back from the Moon stands out less as a coming-of-age story or a portrait of economic malaise than it does as a simple, extended work of tonal discipline. In viewing the movie, you float from...
It’s kind of beside the point whether or not Victor Polster is good in the lead role of Lukas Dhont’s Girl. In fact, in this case, a good performance may not even be epistemologically possible. The transgender community has not...
There are days when it can be difficult to be a film critic. Sometimes a movie comes along that fails on so many levels that to talk about any of them feels inherently insufficient. The way each failure feeds into...
People often say that movies should show, not tell. SGT. Will Gardner not only shows, it also tells, and sometimes hammers the point home with a country music song. The film is about a very important topic that needs attention...
It may be difficult for most of us to imagine any reason to become a nun other than religious devotion and the belief in a higher calling. But in Jacques Rivette’s 1966 film La Religieuse (based on a novel by...
It’s kind of impressive, actually, the breadth of what we’ll allow to be called a horror movie. From ghosts to home invasions to serial killers to monsters from other worlds, we’re fine with putting them all in the same box....
Flicker Alley has made a kind of cottage industry out of releasing Georges Méliès’ short films on home video. But that’s not to imply that they’re cynically packaging and repackaging the same content over and over again. On the contrary,...
Only a few minutes into Álvaro Brechner’s A Twelve-Year Night, prisoners have gasoline soaked bags put over their heads and are told to stand in a small room as close to the wall as possible without touching it for hours on...
The past is a funny thing; even if we’ve directly experienced it, attempting to situate another person firmly in the day-to-day experiences of lives now gone will almost inevitably come tinged with a sense of comfort. Even in relaying a...
In the league of cult movies that are “so-bad-they’re-good,” Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 is, at this point in time, a damn classic. But the road to this newfound reputation was long. The second life of Silent Night, Deadly Night...
