Film
Our demanding critics choose the best (and worst) films of the year.
Don’t you just love the holiday season? It’s the time for the release of big budget flops and Oscar wannabes.
Ruminations on age and memory are inevitably sunk deep into the flesh and the glue of personal relationships.
“Fictional movies seem more and more made from recipes. Documentaries seem a much more open, adventurous field.”
Director Vicki Vasilopoulos has masterfully crafted a documentary about tailors, clothing, and the painstaking search for excellence.
The protagonist’s confrontation with his past barbarity is far and away the most compelling part of Out of My Hand.
Chi-Raq is a work of agitprop—preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental.
Yet another cinematic variation on Mary Shelley’s novel—and this one too often opts for slick jolts of adrenaline over credibility.
Creed easily taps into the sensibility and adrenaline of the original Rocky.
Trumbo is content to be a potted history lesson rather than a thought-provoking work of art.
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