Category: Looking Back

Marc Turtletaub’s Puzzle is much like the game itself — quiet, and engrossing. Kelly Macdonald has long been one of our […]

This British film set on the island of Jersey is a stunning feature debut by Michael Pearce. Jessie Buckley plays Moll, […]

“Whiteness can incinerate a family with the heat equal to a bomb,” intones narrator Travis Wilkerson, the filmmaker and subject of […]

In a year that gave us The 15:17 to Paris and Gotti, the claim that the most heinous cinematic crime committed […]

Rather than acting as a release valve on the past few years, 2018 continued to increase the pressure, as American culture […]

If there was ever something to make me realize that pasty dudes talking about movies on Twitter wasn’t indicative of the […]

The Mark Duplass-produced Unlovable is a refreshingly honest depiction of a woman’s road to recovery from sex addiction, based on writer […]

Two teenage girls, one a self-admitted sociopath, the other a spoiled schemer, conspire to commit murder in Cory Finley’s brilliantly incisive […]

This year saw a phoenix-like rebirth of the elemental spirit we call Nicolas Cage, with the actor rising from the ashes […]

In the midst of his Elisabeth Moss trilogy (consisting of Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, and Her Smell), indie auteur […]

In an alternate (and, frankly, better) universe, Augustine Frizzell’s Never Goin’ Back would have been one of the biggest comedy hits […]