Despite some glimmers of hope, By the Grace of God will not be an easy film for anyone — for loyal believers, for those disillusioned by the church, for anyone who has suffered from abuse.
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Film Review: “Parasite” — Notes from the Underclass Underground
Parasite’s powerful vision of the existentially downtrodden offers equal nods to Karl Marx and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Film Review: At BUFF-o-WEEN — The “Blood & Flesh” of Al Adamson, King of the Shoestring Budget
“They were pieces of shit when we shot ‘em, but later on they became relics.”
Film Review: “Pain and Glory” — Almodovar’s Remembrance of Things Past
What remains so seductive about Almodovar is the way he replicates the movement of thought, creating a seamless weave between the story moving forward — rather minimal in this case — and the richer, more luminous past.
Film Review: “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles” — Subversive Non-Fiction
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles is nothing if not provocative fodder for a cinematic niche: the animated feature sheds intriguing light on one of the major film directors of the 20th century at a pivotal time in his career. ,/em>
Film Review: “Joker” — Here Come the Killer Clowns
Screenwriter-director Todd Phillips knows well what he is doing in the calculated way he escalates the bloodshed in Joker.
Film Review: A Rundown from the San Sebastian International Film Festival
How is this festival kept off the map from my US colleagues?
Film Reconsideration: The Beats’s “Pull My Daisy” at 60
You can go home again, daddy-o, but you’re not the same person you were the first time around.
Film Review: “Judy” — Far More Than Just Another Hollywood Tragedy
As Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger is in a movie that doesn’t match her fine performance.
Film Review: “Downton Abbey” — Revisiting Past Glory
Why has Downton Abbey, the film and the series, been so successful? We are given a romanticized vision of essential ‘Britishness,’ a nostalgic version of the class system.