Betsy Sherman
The absurdist comedy Sylvio suffers from chronic low energy, but Tormenting the Hen is mysterious and magnetic.
Marcel Pagnol’s great Marseille Trilogy is a tragicomic love story set on the bustling, sun-drenched docks of a Mediterranean port.
There was a good energy to the depiction of movie-Woody’s nocturnal odyssey, and a few funny bits.
A 30-film series dedicated to Busby Berkeley, Hollywood’s architect of mind-blowing musical production numbers.
The documentary is a highly enjoyable musical and social history of the group and its times.
Demon is a powerful movie that, once seen, can’t be easily shaken off.
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.
Popstar’s silliness is monumental, and wonderful.
A Bigger Splash has a pleasing richness wherein the sensual elements bind the individual characters to each other, and to nature.
Arts Commentary: Lenny Bruce — On the 50th Anniversary of his Death
What made the authorities especially eager to tape Lenny Bruce’s mouth shut was his vigorous social and religious satire.
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