Film
Roma is Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous, neorealist ode to his formative years growing up in ’70s Mexico City, and to the housekeeper he took for granted as she carried him through that tumultuous decade.
This blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.
Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
Rams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.
This is one of the year’s most heartwarming films; it is not sentimental, but projects a profound sense of resilient joy at its heart.
The Favourite may be a raucous historical lampoon — but it is a timely one.
Not since Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up and L’Aventura has there been such a mesmerizing tale of the more you look, the less you find out.
Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.
The film captures everything I love about Queen — the outrageousness, the audacity, the bigness of it all.
Film Commentary: A Critical Dichotomy — Time to Resolve It
It’s as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.
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