Film
Director Ben Wheatley has a knack for creating characters whose anti-social behavior is shocking.
The documentary slate at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston’s all-virtual spring festival puts non-fiction film front and center.
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.
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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