Julie says: “This film ended with me being frustrated saying really! That’s the end? Not again! This ending made the most sense of the films I’ve recently seen but I was still frustrated. 4.25” Chris says: “A well-made feature debut
Chris says: “Tsai Ming-liang’s a filmmaker who tends to make the same kind of picture over and over, like Yasujiro Ozu (to name one of his precursors) or Hong Sang-Soo (a contemporary.) This isn’t a deterrent, for nearly three decades
Brett says: “Julia Ducournau is doing what no one else in cinema is doing. This does not always translate to automatically being good, but this director is inventive and finding ways to give legs to outlandish and logic-defying cinema, so
Michael says: “When Chris mentioned recently that he caught Tsai Ming-liang’s debut feature, REBELS OF THE NEON GOD, I realized that I too had never gone back to watch this film from one of my favorite directors. What I perhaps
Michael says: “After a slight slip with KEY LARGO, we’re back in business. Set in Martinque during WWII, Harry Morgan is an Amiercan ex-pat who reluctantly transports a leader in the French Resistance and his wife to the island, all
Michael says: “After seeing THE BIG SLEEP, I had to watch the rest of Bogie and Bacall’s oeuvre. Count me as one of the many who are smitten by their chemistry. I’m particularly taken by Lauren Bacall’s assured and powerful
Michael says: “It was about 30 minutes into ALPHAVILLE when I realized I don’t think I like Godard’s films. Now I’ve only seen two, this one and BREATHLESS, so I am still open to more (BAND OF OUTSIDERS and VIVRE
Thom says: “Adapted from the Ann Patchett international best-seller this film is a powerful drama with tragic implications. A world famous opera diva (always great Moore) is hired to perform for a wealthy South American industrialist when in the midst
Thom says: “I’m more than a little tired of this genre trying hard to make basic nogoodniks into sympathetic, likable sorts, They’ve tried to make these films workable since the beginning of genre filmmaking, but this one, despite musts-see McConaughey,
Thom says: “Musts-see Isaac & Ben Kingsley drove me to watch this but the Israeli capture of the notorious Adolf Eichmann in Argentina years after the end of WWII is tedious. Kingsley hams it up pretty good.
Thom says: “Once I realized that the director is largely responsible for the mediocre television hit THIS IS US, I should have avoided it. A NYC couple’s tragic story reverberates over continents and lifetimes, no, really. I always enjoy Oscar
