Hans Petter Moland’s Out Stealing Horses (adapted by the director from the novel by Per Petterson) is a pastoral coming of age story. Therefore, it’s light on the superficial whizbangery you might see described as “spectacle.” But Moland is a...
There does seem at first to be something clever and subversive about setting a slasher film on Valentine’s Day…until you remember that Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday and My Bloody Valentine bungles the execution of what could have been an interesting...
Black Christmas has earned its reputation as a seminal horror film, with Bob Clark’s directorial choices and effective subversion of the Christmas holiday season establishing its influence for decades to come (especially in 2020, when this reviewer will be heavily inspired...
Who’d have thought that it was a review from IMDb cluing me into how Resolution, a film that I initially wrote off as “two guys who did the best they could with what they had,” was actually a meta parody of tired...
If you’re at all like me, you’ll become immediately skeptical about David Koepp’s You Should Have Left because it’s yet another Hollywood movie in which a male star is romantically paired with an actress more than a quarter century his...
Lone Star is, for better and for worse, an efficient encapsulation of the two things that make John Sayles films, well, John Sayles films: His earnest filmmaking and his egalitarianism towards his characters.
In the entrancing, energizing opening sequence of Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night, Everett (Jake Horowitz), the young man from the local radio station, makes his way through seemingly every nook and cranny of a 1950s high school gymnasium, instructing...
For a filmmaker who passed away nearly a decade ago, Raoul Ruiz has had a shockingly prolific career of late. The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror, shot in 1967, finally premiered earlier this year at the Berlin...
After viewing a decidedly fumbled (though enjoyable) “Good Neighbor” film the previous day with Neptune’s Daughter, it was nice to catch up with Night Flight (1933), a tribute to the South American airmail industry directed by the great Clarence Brown....