The film’s genius is in its restless tumult, its parade of faces and wisecracks and subplots, its sense of its leads not actually being much more interesting than any of the extras teeming around them.
Great News has a screwball charm and a flair for rapid-fire jokes, built on a premise that amusingly literalizes the classic sitcom concept of coworkers as family
Like Reinhardt playing that party in Thonon-les-Bains, on the border between France and Switzerland, Django director Etienne Comar refuses the limitations imposed on him
Lover for a Day seems at times almost a parody of Garrel’s work, a throwback to a time when a filmmaker’s artistry or hubris often excused, for many viewers, melodramatic characterizations of women …
Moshe relates his tale of can-do vengeance with an unfussy clarity and an obvious fondness for the oaters of yesterday’s Hollywood — an affection that, as in “Burden,” imparts a winning sincerity.
The latest film, the long-delayed The Death Cure, opens with a train heist that suggests, at once, the Mad Max films, the Fast & Furious franchise, and The Wild Bunch by way of Young Guns by way of a Gap ad
Adolescence is no easy period, especially in these Kardashian-obsessed times. But Kylie Jenner isn’t the only young woman growing up in front of the world. Take, for instance, Bailee Madison. The Fort Lauderdale native has been acting in front of a camera since she was 4 years old. Now, at…
That’s the real thrill: Those mind-blown moments when your perception of what is possible on this Earth expands like a blowfish puffing up its stomach with water
… The film has three sections, and each part seems to assume a different set of genre conventions, a different set of emotional cues
Christian Gudegast’s Den of Thieves comes in a cut above the usual trash that Gerard Butler stars in (Law Abiding Citizen, Olympus Has Fallen), which is to say it’s a cut above movies that themselves are already passably diverting …
It’s a somewhat boisterous adventure, a war movie where you cheer not just for the boys to make it home but for them to complete the mission
In the opening minutes of Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story, an adolescent girl prostitutes herself to a man, murders him with his own gun after he refuses to pay, and walks away wearing a smile.
The Miami Jewish Film Festival will screen a homemade documentary for its world premiere right in the city it covers. With The Last Resort, Dennis Scholl, president of ArtCenter/South Florida and former VP for arts at the Knight Foundation; and Kareem Tabsch, cofounder of O Cinema, will take audiences on a journey through South Beach in its infancy via the photographers who documented it beautifully over the years.
The charm of a fantastical hand-drawn work like this is that it reconnects us to the primal wonder of the image
To call Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace the culmination of a career of experience isn’t exaggeration. In a lengthy, operatic, and dialogue-light opening, the director and writer Tom Rob Smith (London Spy) take viewers to Miami Beach in the summer of 1997…
Where the movie occasionally locates some surprise and resonance is in the tiny exchanges, when Wolf allows her characters to breathe, free of the demands of a schematic narrative
Few movie buffs ever consider the relationship between the filmmaker and the filmworker. The first is often recognized above a movie’s title — names like Spielberg and Coppola. The other is the anonymous grunt on set often unknown to the common moviegoer. In fact, the term “filmworker” corresponds to a role so unacknowledged…
For much of The Final Year, convinced of Hillary Clinton’s victory, the members of Obama’s crew insist that their successes and failures are part of a continuity – that their work will inform the work of the next administration
It’s a sad day when the cinematographer carries the full burden of storytelling, but in this instance it’s also at least a wonderful opportunity to marvel at Laustsen’s work
The Miami Jewish Film Festival is back for its 21st year, celebrating Israel’s 70th birthday and screening a massive collection of works over the next two weeks. Check out New Times’ suggestions to guide you through the fest’s lineup.
The film drags when Haneke pulls focus to the other, duller characters, perhaps inevitably, as it seems his intention for those people to lack interiority or thoughtfulness
In the latest movie by Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Daniel Day-Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, a dress designer in 1950s London. As you might guess, the film’s costume designer is especially important for such a movie. Mark Bridges, who has worked with Anderson since the director’s first movie in 1996, says he felt no added pressure from the subject matter in his task for the movie.
