From the outside, my barbershop on First Hill looks like every Main Street America tonsorial parlor, complete with the striped…
From the outside, my barbershop on First Hill looks like every Main Street America tonsorial parlor, complete with the striped…
“Scrambled is my favorite eggs style. What about yours?” The speaker is Lisa, a lonely, sincere, somewhat vapid woman sharing…
The Revenant is a huge whopping spectacle, the likes of which have rarely been seen since Cecil B. DeMille ordered…
What’s he done this time? As a filmmaker who creates experiences that aren’t remotely like anything else out there, Quentin…
Will Ferrell hasn’t exhausted the comedy of emasculation just yet—his argyle-sweater-vest-clad persona still has some comic juice. Still, it was…
Concussion joins the small collection of investigative films arriving at the end of 2015, with Spotlight and Truth and the…
The Price of Salt is a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith (using the pseudonym Claire Morgan) about a lesbian romance….
The films of Quentin Dupieux would’ve been a smash in the late ’60s and early ’70s, crammed as they are…
As evidenced by the success of radio’s Serial and TV’s The Jinx (like anybody consumes things on radio or TV…
He looks like a junkie, she doesn’t; but maybe that’s the point. Animals seeks to humanize the struggle of two…
Fatih Akin (Head-On, Soul Kitchen) is on the short list of the most intriguing 21st-century directors, and his latest effort,…
Beyond the valley of black comedy is a place where laughter and horror mingle freely. Here roams the original British…
Small in scale and antiwar in subject, Tangerines is the kind of story that almost always gets called a fable….
When Albert Maysles died on March 5, it was the end of a significant phase of the documentary film. His…
The characters in current superhero movies must’ve grown up reading comic books. In Marvel’s run of blockbusters, Iron Man and…
Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) is a dowser, a man who can find water in the Australian desert—a talent he will…
In November 1811, in accordance with their suicide pact, the great German Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist shot and killed…
Even if you have an allergic reaction to dramatic re-enactments in documentary films—and I confess I get itchy during them—1971…
Icelandic humor. Could it become a thing? It seems possible in the wake of Of Horses of Men, a supremely…
It arrives with something less than the heated expectations of, say, the Avengers sequel, but Ned Rifle is nevertheless the…
This movie never leaves the courtroom or its antechamber, but that’s not the only reason things are unbearably claustrophobic. The…
In the early minutes of Welcome to New York, Gerard Depardieu’s performance as a VIP called Devereaux appears designed to…
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