Kristen Stewart

Film Review: “The Chronology of Water” — Stormy Depths, and Stillness

January 24, 2026
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How often do we see movies that successfully delve into what it means to become a mature adult after a traumatic childhood?

Film Review: “Love Lies Bleeding” — Fatigued Existential Ruthlessness

March 14, 2024
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“Love Lies Bleeding” is a glorious work of sweaty, dusty, pulp filmmaking.

Film Review: “Crimes of the Future” — Let Them Eat Microplastics

June 10, 2022
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If you find David Cronenberg’s cinematic philosophy on bodily abjection/assimilation and the artistic process intellectually stimulating, then you’re in for an intoxicating return to form from the man whose name is synonymous with the body horror genre.

Film Review: “Seberg” — Starlet, Surveilled

May 15, 2020
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The enigma of Seberg’s demise hangs over this biopic, which focuses on the civil rights activism that made the actress a target for the FBI’s covert surveillance.

Film Review: “Personal Shopper” — An Enigma Wrapped in a Seance

March 24, 2017
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Personal Shopper poses questions about how technology and fashion are skewing our relationships and obliterating traditional notions of identity.

Film Review: “Certain Women” — Mysteries of the Ordinary

October 30, 2016
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Kelly Reichardt’s cinema gives us slow, rich portraits of life’s daily rhythms, its frustrations and unresolved conflicts.

Film Review: Woody Allen’s “Café Society” — Cobwebbed

July 24, 2016
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Conclusion: Woody Allen is, and long long has been, an aged fart.

Film Commentary: Visions of “On the Road,” the Movie

December 21, 2012
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Jack Kerouac once said that “On the Road” “was really a story about 2 Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God,” but the spiritual element of his journey is completely lacking in the film.

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