There is a portion of our readership, I trust, for whom the words “Jack Black, Kyle MacLachlan, and Cate Blanchett play witches” will be about all they need to read with regards to this movie. Reader, I’m here to tell...
If, at any point in the years since 2015’s Son of Saul, you’ve found yourself thinking, “I wonder if László Nemes still likes close-ups,” then I can confirm, having seen his newest film, Sunset, that he does. He also maintains an affinity...
In Wash Westmoreland’s Colette, Dominic West plays a theatre critic (actually, he plays a charlatan but one of the things his character fakes well is theatre criticism). He observes that, while you can put down a boring book or look away...
At first glance, the trailer for Angie Wang’s autobiographical MDMA seems to bear a kinship to popular drug sagas (à la Blow or American Made) with its rags-to-riches narrative and “true story” seal of approval. However, for all the films...
For those of us unfamiliar with the finer points of thermodynamics, entropy can be understood as a lack of order or predictability or as an expression of randomness or lack of information in a system. In a random universe in...
“There are days when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it.” That quote from James Baldwin opens Amma Asante’s Where Hands Touch. Baldwin was referring to America and Asante’s film takes place...
“Voting is the best revenge.” So said President Barack Obama on the campaign trail in 2012. I cannot think of a better summation of modern politics than this statement. It takes the idea of voting – and of politics, in...
We all know what Lizzie Borden is famous for. And even if we didn’t, Craig William Macneill opens his new film, Lizzie—an account of the events preceding, including and following her crimes—with shots of their aftermath, hatchet-disfigured corpses in pools...
In Angelina Jolie’s 2014 film Unbroken, we are told the harrowing story of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic runner who fought in World War II. During that time, his plane was shot down, he spent over a month floating in a...
White Boy Rick tells the true story of Richard Wershe Jr., a Detroit teenager who at fourteen became the youngest FBI informant ever and by seventeen was sentenced to life in prison for doing what the FBI had literally taught...
