Category: Theatrical Review
Camilo Restrepo’s Los Conductos opens with a camera, apparently mounted on a vehicle, rushing through an otherwise empty traffic tunnel at night. We’ve seen this shot in movies before but something’s different this time. The camera is higher than the...
The Wobblies, Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer’s 1979 documentary about the heyday of the Industrial Workers of the World union (recently restored in 4K and set to screen all over the country for International Workers Day), makes no attempt to...
My parents were pretty strict when it came to R-rated movies so fourteen year old me didn’t get to see Con Air in a theater. I felt the pangs of that great disappointment in my life again when Tom Gormican’s...
In a number of ways, most especially in terms of budget, The Northman is Robert Eggers’ most ambitious film so far. And in the sets, the sprawling locations, the visual effects and the deep bench of notable actors, that financial...
1984’s Delta Space Mission, a Romanian animated adventure directed by Calin Cazan and Mircea Toia, wastes almost no time getting into its high velocity, trippy magic. That’s wise because, at only 70 minutes, it doesn’t have much time to waste...
What is it about the sound of water that’s so cinematic? Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s recent masterpiece, Memoria, sets a huge chunk of its final act alongside a quietly burbling stream. In a similar way, Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’...
Enough people liked Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self-Defense, it would seem, that he felt confident doubling down on some of that movie’s more irritating choices in his new follow-up, Dual. To be fair, not all of the ingredients from...
Some of the particulars of the story tapestry in Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair might seem alien to those of us who came of age pre-2005 and the launch of YouTube. But the underlying tale of...
Please don’t let yourself get played the way that I did. Don’t be fooled by headlines promising that Valérie Lermercier’s Aline “has to be seen to be believed.” Sure, the one weird thing about it–director/co-writer/star Lermercier plays the title character,...
Generally speaking, the problems I’ve had with Michael Bay’s films in the past don’t seem to be the things that most of his detractors point to. In fact, I can boil pretty much all of my distaste for his work...
