Chris says: “In past films like SAINT LAURENT and NOCTURAMA, I’ve admired director Bertrand Bonello’s approach and elements of his heightened style without finding them complete or entirely convincing. His latest gets closer than ever to feeling whole but that’s
Chris says: “The longer I sat with this Argentinian film about a bank heist (but not really a heist film per se), the more I appreciated it, even if it really did not need to be three+ hours long. Apart
Michael says: “Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison, a distinguished academic and writer of literary fiction who decries the popular trend of best-selling books about the black experience – usually involving single moms, gangs, and police shootings – in Cord
Chris says: “This 1980s-set drama about a young teacher and Britain’s Section 28 legislation (which prohibited the promotion of homosexuality) is a bit heavy-handed at times in ways where, say, PRIDE was not. However, you should see it for Rosy
Chris says: “As with many music docs, it’s overlong and reaches a bit too far stylistically; still, better that than just skimming the surface or regurgitating well-known factoids which this has no trouble avoiding in part because its subject is
Michael says: “Even though I wasn’t able to catch the IFFBoston’s much lauded closing night film, I ended my festival experience the night before with a very strong showing. This powerful tale of a Korean immigrant who comes to Canada
Michael says: “It would be difficult for me not to like a documentary about Mary Tyler Moore, an actor and celebrity that I am obviously very well aware of, have enjoyed in many TV and movie appearances, but actually not
Michael says: “MONICA is a finely constructed story about a fractured family reunited with the decline in health of the surviving matriarch. The title character particularly hasn’t had any contact with the family for years, and her return is brought
Brett says: “A kitchen sink drama that cuddles up with SCARFACE? Count me in. CHARCOAL is an anomalous genre bender out of Brazil that is part Tennessee ‘Joanópolis’ Williams and part Mario ‘CV’ Puzo. “Irene and Jairo are wife and
Jeff says: “More experimental than straight up horror, SKINAMARINK looks like a fourth-generation VHS copy of a film originally shot on 16mm around 1972. It’s so grainy, you might find yourself asking if that fuzzy spot in the upper corner