You don’t need great performances for a great movie, we suppose — Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s mesmerizing 2016 documentary/art piece “Homo Sapiens,” for instance, doesn’t feature a single human being on screen and is...
Best of this; top 20 that; breakthrough the other. At some point in our ever-comprehensive year-end coverage, especially after a pretty great movie year like this one, we simply get sick and tired of scanning o...
It's always difficult to tell ahead of time which of our year-end lists will prove the most divisive among the usually harmonious Playlist team. But perhaps reflecting the inarguable explosion of quality TV ove...
On a heath, a startled hare looks up. In its eyes are reflected the lights of a ferris wheel, in whose neon glow Armie Hammer dances to an 80s tune. A little girl with ice-cream sticky fingers runs past and nea...
Many words have been written, and doubtless many more will be, about the filmmaking genius of Stanley Kubrick. But if, as Thomas Edison said, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, Tony Zierra's "Filmwo...
It could be the name of a seniors-only a capella group, but the chummy, sunny title is misleading. If "Golden Dawn Girls," which premiered in the main competition at the International Documentary Festival of Am...
The first time I met Sean Baker, director of the vibrantly heartbreaking "The Florida Project," was two years ago, in a noisy Berlin bar after a screening of his last, justly celebrated film, "Tangerine." It oc...
People climb tall mountains "because they're there." "Loving Vincent" which closed the Antalya Film Festival last week, suggests a similarly glib and unsatisfying explanation as to why directors Dorota Kobiela ...
Not least among the many things to admire in Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof's "A Man of Integrity," which won the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar this year and also picked up best Director an...
Human. Flow. The central issue with Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's meticulously well-intentioned, undeniably colossal and beautifully shot documentary, which debuted in Venice and now embodies the refugee...