At its best, cinema is a medium of visual poetry, and the challenge of a critic is to express thoughts and feelings about those works of art through words...and numbered lists. I’ve somehow managed to make the ...
2017 might be done with us, but we’re not exactly done with it. In traditional Playlist form, it’s never quite clear if the world has moved on from the last year during the early days of January, but regardless...
Welcome to another edition of Over/Under Movies, the podcast in which we choose one overrated film and one underrated film — similar in tone, genre, style, or however we may see fit — and we discuss them. RE...
Sometimes you don't know what you have, even if it's staring you right in the face. Love is complicated, and director Azazel Jacobs dives into the knotty realities of midlife relationships in "The Lovers," and ...
We’re firmly into June now, and fast bearing down on the midpoint of 2017, a year that’s shaping up to be the longest goddamn year in history (fun fact: at the start of 2017, Barack Obama was President of the U...
There is a moment in Azazel Jacobs’ “The Lovers” (read our review of the movie, which opens in limited release today) that feels almost shockingly real. And it’s a small one that almost anyone watching the movi...
In other hands, the stripped-down premise of "The Lovers" — a decades-long marriage in its death throes — could be a dour experience or even an enjoyably nasty one. But writer/director Azazel Jacobs (HBO's "Dol...
Generally speaking, A24 either acquire or debut films on the festival circuit before bringing them to cinemas, but that strategy doesn't always need to be followed. Occasionally, there's a film whose charm spea...
There’s now less than a month until Christmas, and after a start last week with our look at the Best Posters and Best Trailers of the year, this week commences in earnest our annual smorgasbord of movie love th...
Ok, we just wrote about it and we have it sitting here in front of us, so why not get into "Elevator To The Gallows" a tiny bit more. As just noted, the amazing French crime noir is the remarkable first feature...