Film
About Endlessness’s deadpan combination of sadness and rage feels complete, as if the master dropped the mic before leaving the building after the final edit.
Though it’s classified as a comedy, Shiva Baby utilizes many of the stylistic trademarks found throughout the horror genre to merge painfully humorous discomfort with suffocatingly atmospheric terror.
In his new book on film directors, critic David Thomson gives us plenty to think about and plenty more to argue about.
1971 gave us bursts of magnificent cinematic iconoclasm that had no future — culturally or politically.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Violation utilizes extreme violence not to revel in a revenge fantasy but to deconstruct the genre’s militantly feminist appeal — “kill your rapist” — as a self-destructive endeavor offering no catharsis whatsoever.
This new satirical sci-fi fable is perfect for home streaming to channel (or perhaps exacerbate) your gnawing anxieties at a world slipping into anti-human automation and free-market desperation.
We mourn the loss of an affable generous man, a bridge to a vast history, who also knew and loved American culture.
The experience of watching Ammonite may prove slightly unsettling for some viewers because there is so little cinematic artifice at work.
Film Commentary: “Minari” — An Immigrant Tale with a Southern Accent
Minari is about the triumph of folkways, both Ozark and Korean.
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