Peg Aloi
“The Devil’s Bath” demands your full engagement; along with its primordial intensity, a great deal of subtle intelligence lies beneath its visceral surface.
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Here are films I’ve most loved watching the late Donald Sutherland in over the years.
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This powerful documentary is a paean to what was once thought to be the immortal impact of cinema and television, a thoughtful commentary on life’s richness — and its inevitable impermanence.
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“Ripley” is one of the most entertaining and finely-wrought thriller series to come from Netflix in years.
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Here are some recommendations of old and new streaming picks: some are leaving very soon, some should be around for a while.
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The Cairnes brothers explore how the analog media trickery of a bygone era may illuminate our current obsession with what is real.
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Sofia Vergara’s performance as drug queenpin Griselda Blanco, in the limited series “Griselda,” is no less than career-defining and unforgettable.
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Nature has long been a perennial topic for cinema and, given the escalation of the climate crisis, the environmental context of these three fine films feels particularly urgent and poignant.
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Three sure-handed debut movies at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including a documentary directed by Lucy Lawless and features from Thea Hvistendahl and Jack Begert.
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The breadth and intimacy of “Origin”‘s vision — the personal becomes the historical — is stunning, a searing portrait of collective trauma and the dark ideas that propel it.
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