While it might be misleading to describe Benny and Josh Safdie’s unceasingly tense and jittery low-level crime thriller Uncut Gems as a comedy, the directors’ singular sense of humor is on display from the grandiose opening sequence. In an Ethiopian...
As with Woody Allen, Noah Baumbach makes films about himself or the women he loves. I tend to prefer the latter, and the realization that The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) would be both the former and a more self-conscious...
I’ve come to understand that Billy Madison is not as great a movie as I thought it was when I was thirteen. Yet I know – or at least I fully believe – that it is still good in its...
