Film
2020 offered another rich year for the documentary form, well beyond the tabloid entertainment of the likes of Tiger King
The filmmakers use their story to point towards a way to help us navigate through our own polarization; it has something to do with each of us widening our perspective to take in more than just our immediate experience.
The film feels amateurish in the most complimentary Stendhalien sense: created in a spirit of play, rather than a sweaty effort to advance a studio agenda.
In its efforts to subvert well-known tropes, and reclaim the subgenre’s feminist cultural potency, Promising Young Woman undercuts its own transgressive potential by doing away with what makes rape-revenge films compelling.
Some of the best music documentaries of 2020 – and some disappointments
Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year.
Some great old films to watch while you count the days for your anti-COVID injection!
This brilliant film is both an intriguing commentary on the nature of performance and a frightening allegory about how technology, at the service of our worst fantasies and urges, is capable of destroying our humanity.
Trumpeter Doc Severinsen had the right combination of talent and showmanship to reach and stay in the spotlight, and he adjusted the pieces of his life to maintain his singular place.
Film Review: The Best Horror of 2020
It was the most terrifying of times, it was the most horrifying of times.
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