Tuner
Tuner is a relatively simple story, and it is a film that offers no true innovations, in plot or character, but is rather about the how well it is told, rather [...]
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Olivier Assayas is a director who has done many different sorts of films, but ultimately they are always centered on intense characters caught in remarkable situations. Sometimes, the works are [...]
Diamonds
Diamonds is a special film. It is, at times, a bit melodramatic, but only in the best sense of the word. It is inarguably passionate and darkly funny. It contains wisdom [...]
Two Pianos
Two Pianos is the new, highly melodramatic work from the French writer-director Arnaud Desplechin starring Francois Civil as a pianist, brough back to his hometown of Lyon, by his former [...]
Two Women
There is a long debate about the need and place for remakes. This reviewer has always argued that even if the original was great, why not remake a story? If [...]
Blue Heron
Blue Heron is a film that is formally daring and emotionally taxing. It is a work about memory and understanding, but it is not about answers or resolution as much as [...]
Kontinental ’25
Kontinental '25 is the latest film from the Romanian director Radu Jude. By comparison to his last three pictures, this one is the most reserved. Yet, it has all the fire, passion, [...]
The Stranger
Francois Ozon’s new film, The Stranger, based on Albert Camus’ famed novel, is a coldly distant film, reflective of its central character. Shot in stark black and white-reminiscent of the recent Ripley series-the [...]
Fantasy Life
Fantasy Life, from writer and director Matthew Shear, who also stars as, in his debut film behind the camera, focuses on the story of a recently fired young legal worker, [...]
Miroirs No. 3
Miroirs No. 3 is a lyrical, unusual work that contains a lot of rich emotions, done in a way where not much seems to happen yet each moment is packed [...]