Tim Jackson
The hefty volume is consistently engaging and informative — a lively, visually appealing guide to one of cinema’s most formidable careers.
The film’s intellectual friskiness is everywhere, and at times it takes centerstage at the expense of the story.
“Sirāt” is a heart-stopping, surreal reflection of our contemporary moment.
Backbeats is a detailed and informative story. Each profile functions as an entry point into a selective but substantial survey of roughly seventy-five years of rock history.
Jim Jarmusch’s films resist cliches and conventional dramatic formulas — understatement is the rule.
A satisfying, occasionally cringe-worthy Gothic thriller, whose sharp satire of social mores contains a feminist message that’s hard to miss.
The film skims across topical issues aimlessly; it strives for relevance but never achieves it.
Director Hal Hartley is an old-school romantic, one who sees human frailty and longing not as invitations to despair but as reasons to take part in the joy of living.
Director Raoul Peck, like his subject George Orwell, encourages critical thinking and urges us to consider how best to resist the strengthening forces of tyranny.
Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard
One of the great playwrights of the 20th century, Tom Stoppard wrote to entertain, but with intellectual rigor.
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