Review: ‘Beau Is Afraid’Joaquin Phoenix Stars In Ari Aster's Funny, Self-Indulgent Oedipal Roller Coaster
Ari Aster is dealing with some serious mommy issues. And attics. The guy must have a thing about attics. We saw him unburden himself...
Review: ‘Renfield’Nicolas Cage Sinks His Teeth Into Gory, Campy Horror-Comedy
If you're a fan of the wildly over-the-top, idiosyncratic performances of Nicolas Cage, and if you're not you're no friend of mine, then you...
Review: ‘Showing Up’Michelle Williams And Kelly Reichardt Reunite To Craft Low-Key Art
The saying goes that "art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation." Perhaps no filmmaker's work is...
Review: ‘Fist Of The Condor’Marko Zaror Soars In A Martial Arts Instant Classic From...
Sacred texts, ancient martial arts, wandering warriors, a pair of wise old masters...Fist of the Condor even has a title to match its 1970s...
Review: ‘How To Blow Up A Pipeline’Incendiary Eco-Thriller Sends A Message Of Action To...
Believe it or not, climate change is real, and as this planet of ours, the only home we have, suffers from one catastrophic ecological...
Review: ‘Paint’Watching Paint Dry Is Equally Enjoyable To Owen Wilson's Bob Ross-Inspired Comedy
Bob Ross, the eclectic, soothing painter of "happy little trees" on public TV for years, is still a beloved figure long after his death. ...
Review: ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’Nintendo Has A Bowser-Sized Hit On Its Hands With...
Making good video game movies shouldn't be hard. For decades, this particular subgenre had delivered embarrassingly bad adaptations, as Hollywood struggled to figure out...
Review: ‘Air’Ben Affleck Comes Through In The Clutch With A Rousing Story Of Nike...
It's tough to imagine a time when Nike wasn't the first name in shoes, in particular basketball shoes. But in the '80s, they were...
Review: ‘Smoking Causes Coughing’Quentin Dupieux Offers An Absurdist, Darkly Comic Power Rangers Riff With...
Only a filmmaker with Quentin Dupieux's unpredictable sense of humor could conceive a bizarre experience as Smoking Causes Coughing. I call him unpredictable because he has...
Review: ‘Rye Lane’Vivian Oparah And David Jonsson Dazzle In Raine Allen-Miller's Refreshingly Upbeat, Hip-Hop...
Rye Lane is the kind of infectious, quietly aspirational film that I wished there were more of at Sundance. For Park City vets, an easy...