Tim Jackson

Film Review: “A Quiet Place Part II” — Women Will Be Our Salvation

May 28, 2021
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Survival is the primary motivation, and the film’s unrelenting series of unexpected attacks generate considerable tension.

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Concert Film: “P!nk: All I Know So Far” — A Female Performer of Uncommon Power

May 21, 2021
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For fans, this backstage concert documentary is obviously a gift. For others, it will serve as a testament to the power of a woman whose life’s work has made real world impact.

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Film Review: “The Killing of Two Lovers” — Lives of Quiet Desperation

May 14, 2021
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We are subtly drawn into the world of director Robert Machoian’s characters and their emotional honesty.

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Film Review: Powerful Testimony from Mexico — “I Am No Longer Here” and “Identifying Features”

January 30, 2021
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What do these young Mexican filmmakers want? For us to bear witness.

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Film Review: “The White Tiger” — Class Warfare, Indian Style

January 21, 2021
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This is a wicked and entertaining satire on the dizzying class conflicts roiling Indian society, a neo-Marxist story of masters and servants, money and corruption — a Horatio Alger tale with a devilish twist.

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Film Review: “Sound of Metal” — A Test of Character

November 20, 2020
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To Sound of Metal’s credit, the narrative remains open-ended, refusing to descend into a predictable “Hollywood” story of triumph over adversity.

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Book Review: “The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock”  — The Art of Doing Nothing, Well

October 29, 2020
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Dan Callahan has crafted an entertaining and illuminating guide to understanding Hitchcock’s relationship with some of the most iconic actors of the day.

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Film Review: “White Noise: Inside the Racist Right” — Planting the Seeds

October 23, 2020
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White Noise is neither a polemic nor an exercise in agitprop: it is a journey into the dark center of a reprehensible movement that is growing more vocal every day.

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Film Review: “On the Rocks” — Snooping Among the Upper Class

October 2, 2020
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Sofia Coppola’s flawed characters are part of the real world, engaged in authentic relationships struggling with universal dilemmas.

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Book Review: Filmmaker Werner Herzog — On the Hunt for the Ecstatic Truth

September 4, 2020
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This thoughtful study offers a worthwhile critical perspective on Werner Herzog, one of the world’s great living film artists.

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