Tim Jackson
Walking a fine line between fiction and documentary, director Sacha Polak has fashioned a film that is achingly real because it evokes life’s unpredictability.
Read More“Drums & Demons” is at times frustratingly unclear on dates, but its research is comprehensive about the brilliant career and disasterous end of drummer Jim Gordon.
Read MoreDirector Alexander Payne and star Paul Giamatti excel at this kind of character-driven comedy/drama.
Read MoreDirector Maggie Betts has much to keep in check – a courtroom drama and an exposé of corporate greed and racial politics in Mississippi.
Read MoreWith exception of one narrative chiller, and a look at singer Karen Carpenter, the best films I saw were documentaries on the lives and careers of significant African-Americans.
Read MoreFive reviews of the kind of films that the Provincetown Film Festival celebrates. Their stories speak to our shared humanity.
Read MoreKerry Howley’s expose is a vibrant report on the chaotic and often disquieting world of surveillance and national security.
Read MoreThe Worst Ones is a distinctive cinematic achievement – it is deeply moving film that offers a critique of itself.
Read MoreFlorence Pugh tends to be cast as beautiful and indomitable characters faced with the very real possibility of madness or defeat.
Read MoreBy drawing on the insight and humor in Don DeLillo’s novel, Noah Baumbach manages to find (at least for me) affirmation and comfort in this portrait of the randomness of contemporary existence.
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