Category: Theatrical Review
If you’re coming across Deerskin (Le Daim), it’s likely that you’re familiar with the work of Quentin Dupieux, and that you know what kind of absurd, potentially horrific comedy to expect. If you know nothing about the his previous work,...
In 1991, a dedicated group of artists and scientists – headed by a charismatic visionary and backed by an eccentric billionaire – built a self-enclosed ecosystem in Arizona. They dubbed it “Biosphere 2” and selected eight people to live inside...
The movies went through a heady period from the 1980s ‘til the mid-2000s of depicting high school as a non-stop party, but when I think back on those years, I mostly think about the long gaps of nothing. I think...
If you suspect nepotism when you see that Jed Kurzel, the composer of the score for True History of the Kelly Gang, is the younger brother of the film’s director, Justin Kurzel, first know that Jed is already an established...
Nate Bakke’s Man Camp contains many comedic elements that I thoroughly enjoy, and some that I do not. This story of three grown men in various states of arrested development coming to terms with the loss of their father contains...
Endings, Beginnings is a mopey, tone-deaf slog that misunderstands its audience and its purpose. It’s like an entire set of Morrissey covers played on kazoo in the middle of a sports bar on Super Bowl Sunday. With a cast of...
In his bracing and assured sophomore feature A White, White Day, director Hlynur Palmason shows little interest in being cryptic or abstract. Even the evocative title gets explained by the opening text. The phrase refers to a foggy day where...
With his first movie since 2014’s Berlin Film Festival-winning Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer/director Diao Yinan has returned to the noir genre, and crafted an exceptionally stylish audiovisual feast of neon- and rain-soaked sleaze. While Black Coal, Thin Ice was...
This film’s release date has been pushed to April 3, 2020 As a work of cinema, Chris Durrance and Barak Goodman’s Slay the Dragon is largely indistinguishable from any other mainstream documentary of our moment. It’s got the talking heads...
After several sequels and a few misfires, Pixar is back on track with Dan Scanlon’s Onward, a film that is equal parts comedy, heart, and imagination. Like the best offerings from the studio, Onward balances several tones at once, pivoting...
