
Abel Ferrara's built a reputation as a confrontational, upsetting director, so much so that a simple, prosaic scene shocks in and of itself....
Abel Ferrara's built a reputation as a confrontational, upsetting director, so much so that a simple, prosaic scene shocks in and of itself....
German director Christian Petzold takes on bold premises, working with interesting and difficult ideas without losing the emotional dimensio...
"But listen patiently — this is not the last word." Tilda Swinton speaks these words as the narrator in Last and First Men as an agent of...
The Trial of the Chicago 7 has many masters to serve. When a movie captures a notable moment in American history, staying true to the events...
A notable moment from 2016's Cameraperson finds director Kirsten Johnson watching offscreen as a child plays with an axe with no one but the...
A con artist story can sometimes be full of flash and fun. Sometimes they can find desperate characters trying to use their wits to score bi...
The Toronto International Film Festival normally takes over the city with Hollywood premieres, celebrity sightings and massive crowds of fil...
The utility of rioting has been an important debate of late. For some, destruction of property seems to be a step too far; others recognize...
Good Joe Bell offers Mark Wahlberg a dramatic turn without doing much to advance the issues it's attempting to tackle. Talking about intenti...
By some measures, within 15 minutes of the start of a film, the premise should be well established. By that same mark in Lucky Grandma, the...
Russell Crowe is a first-billed villain in Unhinged, the road rage-themed thriller, earning the honour for being the biggest name involved a...
At one time, the true crime that set me on edge were the paperbacks with a few glossy pages stuck in the middle, showing photos of the kille...
Climate of the Hunter finds a chill in the air, inside and outside the cabins in which the movie is set. The title recalls The Night of the...
The people in the room almost need to go through what Bruce is saying word by word. Parts keep getting lost, but eventually, his sentiment i...
Laquan McDonald, a Black 17-year-old, was shot 16 times while turned away from the Chicago Police Department officer who murdered him in 201...
Plenty of entertaining documentaries are built from being in the right place at the right time. The Painter and the Thief — a doc filled wit...
Few documentaries come across discussion of a Christmas tree that's politically fraught. In Mayor, director David Osit's sophomore feature,...
A specific significance of this film's title, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, might be lost on me. To pick out the pair of wor...
In looking at Los Reyes, a story of a couple of strays, it's tough not to think about the lived conditions of capitalism. People keep moving...
What makes a work worth remembering? Worth not only being experienced by audiences in its own time and place, but to be talked about after?...