Movies Archives — Page 11 of 27

10/05/202003/02/2024inMoviesby Chelsea Spear8 min read

Punk Women, Punk Cinema: Examining the Female-Fronted Rock Bio-Doc

As more documentarians tackle the women of the punk and pre-punk movements, are their films shattering norms like their subjects did?

10/02/202003/02/2024inLooking Backby Jason Bailey6 min read

Classic Corner: Shivers

David Cronenberg’s debut feature plays like a road map of the preoccupations that would consume him for the rest of his career.

10/01/202003/02/2024inReviewsby Abby Olcese3 min read

Review: Dick Johnson Is Dead

Kirsten Johnson’s documentary memoir is a creative, funny and deeply moving portrait of loss-in-process.

10/01/202003/02/2024inReviewsby Kimber Myers4 min read

Review: The Glorias

Julie Taymor’s biopic features some welcome convention busting, but its simplistic hagiography wears thin.

09/30/202003/02/2024inLooking Backby David Lynch7 min read

The Young Girls of Rochefort in the Social Isolation Era

The vibrant street scenes and joyful interactions of Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical hit differently after all these months of isolation.

09/30/202003/02/2024inLooking Backby Jonah Koslofsky6 min read

“Each Person You Speak to Has Had a Day”: Hearing Others in Inside Out and Anomolisa

The two animated 2015 animated features are worlds apart – yet strangely aligned in questions of empathy and introspection.

09/23/202003/02/2024inLooking Back, Moviesby Craig J. Clark7 min read

Albert Brooks Plays Himself

With a new showcase of his work on the Criterion Channel, we look at how Albert Brooks explored the possibilities of his carefully crafted comic persona.

09/22/202011/10/2025inLooking Backby Chris Stanton5 min read

The Flattening Lionization of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

It’s approaching its 45th anniversary and back on our minds thanks to Ryan Murphy’s ill-advised “Ratched,” so we look back at Milos Forman’s Oscar-sweeping story of rebellion (and emasculation).