Whether you decide the new horror indie A Banquet is in fact a horror film depends upon how wide your net is cast. Genre creates certain expectations, and runs ...
Among other things, the new Georgian film Brighton 4th might just be the best foreign film ever made about Brooklyn. But it feels right at home, because just as...
Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero, like all of the new Iranian filmmaker's distinctively hyperrealist films, is an oratorio of social catastrophe. No other living...
More than anything else, Aaron Sorkin’s new masquerade-biopic, Being the Ricardos, is a master class in the diminishing returns of what we now call "Sorkinese."...
The new Welsh horror film The Feast works hard at distinguishing itself from the indie-freakout renaissance we’ve got going right now, beginning with its studie...
Your discombobulation begins with the gnarled English of that title – Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn? It sounds like the text of a particularly inept Ukrainian ...
There might well be something inherent in the warped, pressurized, attention-surplus lifestyle of a pop star that steers you toward embarking on something like ...
In 1985, Don DeLillo’s classic novel White Noise centered on a vexed college professor who had pioneered the field of Hitler Studies. It read like satire, but i...
It’s a rare thing-- a movie you have more difficulty pegging after you’ve seen it. Leos Carax’s new film Annette is a self-knowing whatzit, a restless and disin...
By now you can treasure Nicolas Cage without necessarily loving him or the movies he chooses to make, but there’s no denying his Bourdain-ish appetite for new a...
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