Arriving amid the December awards season and year-end lists, this fine Turkish drama strikes a resonant chord with some other…
Intentionally or not, David O. Russell’s pleasing new empowerment-com is perfectly represented by its emblem, the Miracle Mop. The movie…
Before the international acclaim earned for The Past and A Separation, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi delivered this impressive beachside drama…
Over the years, and there have been many, I have heard the mandarins of SIFF say “We’re slimming down the…
Over the years, and there have been many, I have heard the mandarins of SIFF say “We’re slimming down the…
As post-recession Seattle swells with ever more wealth, inequality becomes that much more pronounced. King County’s 10-year war on homelessness…
Every edition of SIFF begins with optimism and fresh resolutions: This year I’ll buy my tickets earlier. Or, This time…
If the images in his shoestring romance Beach Town seem a little grainy and washed-out, if the sun flares in…
Most film snobs are gross hypocrites. I know I am. Me, I couldn’t care less about those wisecracking Marvel movies…
Completely reliant on the warmth and goodwill generated by its stars (rather than, say, its writing), this AARP-oriented dramedy strikes…
If you’ve ever been trapped in a cabin during a rainy summer-weekend getaway, you’ll know the feeling of cracking a…
Try to draw a straight line—I sure can’t—from Olivier Assayas’ sexy film-set shenanigans in Irma Vep (his 1996 breakthrough) to…
A popular basic-cable performer on The League and Kroll Show for the past half-dozen years, Nick Kroll can be forgiven…
TAM has been on an Old West/frontier binge of late, what with the recent Haub bequest, and Matika Wilbur’s Native…
Headed for HBO on May 4 (with companion book to follow), this fascinating documentary portrait will have strong appeal in…
In a certain kind of Italian mob picture, you expect blood feuds, family feasts, and generational conflict. Certainly Francesco Munzi’s…
You’d never know it today, but the present Trinity Nightclub on Occidental Avenue South (near Yesler) once housed the 90-seat…
No one is harder on the press, and less forgiving of ethical transgressions, than the press itself. Fabricating journalists like…
Much as you and I will want to admire the great Brazilian humanist photographer Sebastiao Salgado, such creatures have a…
Ah, yes, the campus rape movie that none of us wants to see. Credit the excellent muckracking documentarian Kirby Dick…
Gordon Gekko in the desert Southwest. There’s really no other way to describe this sparse but ultimately rather silly B-movie…
There are movies about good dogs (Lassie, Benji, etc.) and bad dogs (Cujo, White Dog, and so on), but it’s…
Ben Stiller spent years and God knows how many millions on his recent Walter Mitty remake, a statement movie that…
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