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This long forgotten romantic comedy represents a perfect storm of comic talents coming together for an enjoyable Manhattan-centric movie that…
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Christopher Walken has his breakout performance as a recent ex-con on a mission with his former prison mate (Sean Connery)…
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At best, Christopher Nolan is a barely competent filmmaker. Still, he is far from being an adept storyteller, much less…
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
It’s a given that Emma Stone would seamlessly slip inside Billy Jean King’s skin. It’s equally predictable that Steve Carell…
THE FLORIDA PROJECT — NYFF 55
Although the editing could have been much tighter on Sean Baker’s dramatically infused [ethnographic] study of poverty in Kissimmee, “The…
THELMA — NYFF 55
Joachim Trier’s paranormal-inflected lesbian coming of age thriller zigs where it should zag. Eli Harboe plays the title character, a…
MRS. HYDE — NYFF 55
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Not even Isabelle Huppert’s ever-reliable craftwork can elevate this overwrought and underachieving pro-education, sci-fi inflected, drama. The film’s unbalanced (linear)…
FACES PLACES — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Capsule Reviews, Criterion Collection, Docudrama, Documentary, Feminist Cinema, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, French New Wave, New York Film Festival, Video Essay, Women Filmmakers, Women's Cinema
There is beautiful chemistry between the 88-year-old French New Wave legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda and JR, the youthful French photographer…
THE NEXT MAN
Director Richard Sarafian (famous for the 1971 car-chase classic “Vanishing Point”) helms this absurd and problematic political thriller elevated by…
GHOULIES
Mariska Hargitay makes an inauspicious feature film debut in this trashy little 1984 horror picture from co-writer/director Luca Bercovici. Cole…
RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD
The most surprising aspect of Catherine Bainbridge’s inspired documentary about the contributions of Native Americans to popular music is that…
LUCKY LOGAN
Aside from one very cheesy subplot misstep involving a little girl (Farrah Mackenzie) singing “Country Roads,” Steven Soderbergh’s “Lucky Logan”…
BITCH SLAP
While I enjoyed the overall tone of the movie, and especially the super committed performances of its talented three female…
THE LITTLE HOURS
If you’re the kind of person who likes to nap through summer movies in the air conditioned comfort of your…
SWEPT AWAY — CLASSIC FILM PICK
Capsule Reviews, FIVE STARS, Italian Cinema, Social Satire, Transgressive Cinema, Women Filmmakers, Women's Cinema
Lina Wertmüller’s inspired social satire is wrapped up in political titles, however false, that people identify with or use to…
ENDLESS POETRY
Alejandro Jodorowsky is the most euphoric filmmaker of our time. His transgressive artistic sensibilities form a focal point of pure…
THE B-SIDE — NYFF 54
Documentarian extraordinaire Errol Morris has crafted his sweetest film to date. Morris’s filmic love letter to his longtime friend, photographer…
BABY DRIVER
Edgar Wright made his name co-writing and directing crowd-pleasing parody films with Simon Pegg — think “Shaun of the Dead”…
STALKER — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Jean Paul Sartre’s ‘No Exit’ meets ‘Waiting For Godot” in Chernobyl in this influential filmic think piece from visionary Russian…
LA POINTE COURTE — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Capsule Reviews, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, French New Wave, Video Essay, Women Filmmakers, Women's Cinema
Agnes Varda was ahead of the curve in paving the way for the French New Wave. Her 1955 debut is…
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