The Sundance drama, now streaming on HBO Max, had the raw materials for a powerful drama – and smothered them in decades-old clichés and conventions.
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This month, curious viewers can check out the ninth (!) ‘American Pie’ movie, and the seventh (!!) ‘Tremors’ film. And how are they? Wellllllll…..
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In Noah Baumbach’s 1995 debut feature Kicking and Screaming, everyone is having trouble leaving the comfortable nest of college. Grover (Josh Hamilton) pines, “You know, despite my efforts, my intense efforts to do nothing, things happen anyway.” His best friend Max (Chris Eigeman), feels the same. “Eight hours ago, I was Max Belmont, English major, […]
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As more documentarians tackle the women of the punk and pre-punk movements, are their films shattering norms like their subjects did?
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As Kathryn Bigelow’s sci-fi thriller turns 25, a look back on its prescient and powerful commentary on police brutality and virtual reality.
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David Cronenberg’s debut feature plays like a road map of the preoccupations that would consume him for the rest of his career.
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Kirsten Johnson’s documentary memoir is a creative, funny and deeply moving portrait of loss-in-process.
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Julie Taymor’s biopic features some welcome convention busting, but its simplistic hagiography wears thin.
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The vibrant street scenes and joyful interactions of Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical hit differently after all these months of isolation.
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The two animated 2015 animated features are worlds apart – yet strangely aligned in questions of empathy and introspection.
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The dual debut of both director Karyn Kusama and star Michelle Rodriguez, ‘Girlfight’ (released 20 years ago this week) remains a fierce manifesto for getting – and staying – angry.
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Abel Ferrara’s crime drama, released 30 years ago this week, casts Christopher Walken as a singularly coldblooded antihero.
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