Film
Toni Erdmann gently but somewhat darkly reminds us that living life in the fast lane means missing out on its slower, humbler pleasures.
Director Asghar Farhadi’s most stringent judgments generally fall upon members of his own sophisticated, worldly cohort.
At first,The Autopsy of Jane Doe comes off as a sort of small town crime thriller, but it slowly evolves into what feels like a bonafide horror film.
I ask you, thinking of The Founder: is it just a coincidence that the name Donald is imbedded in the name McDonald’s?
Director Luis García Berlanga entertainingly but ruthlessly lampoons the cruelties and absurdities of Spanish life under dictatorship.
All of these stories are powerful… if only they were treated with dramatic complexity.
There was a good energy to the depiction of movie-Woody’s nocturnal odyssey, and a few funny bits.
One of the lessons of the Dead of Winter series at the Brattle Theatre:”The occult is one of many tickets to the revolution.”
Paterson is a movie about how ordinary it may be to see the world in a grain of sand.
Did Martin Scorsese want this film about religious faith to reverberate so faintly, to make its point through such awkward stillness?
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