Theater Camp
We have experienced theatrics being mocked in mockumentary fashion before with Christopher Guests Waiting for Guffman, among many other subcultures. Molly Gordon and co-writer and co-director Nick Lieberman show signs [...]
Barbie
Barbie is a fantasy comedy based on Mattel's fashion dolls that I can't see all families and young children enjoying. The welding of satire on consumerism, materialism, and capitalism into [...]
Amanda
A quirky and oddly charming coming-of-age story about a young Italian woman in her early 20s struggling with loneliness and borderline personality disorder within her wealthy upbringing and the expectations [...]
Afire
Narrowing his focus info a more intimate and personal style of filmmaking, acclaimed filmmaker Christian Petzold has altered his Hitchcockian style and dystopian tone to a more meta-approach, but arguably [...]
Biosphere
Biosphere is an off-kilter sci-fi comedy with a lot of potential that is reminiscent of the 1996 Hollywood comedy Biodome. It is a two-handler feature film debut from Mel [...]
Joy Ride
Taking a page or two from Girls Trip and The Hangover, writer-producer Adele Lim, who was a co-writer on the script for Crazy Rich Asians, makes her feature film directing [...]
Asteroid City
Sophisticated, meta, and deadpan, Asteroid City finds world-renowned auteur Wes Anderson recapturing a similar story as he has in the past but working on a much larger canvas where he [...]
Past Lives
From David Lean's Brief Encounter to Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, and Richard Linklater's Before Trilogy, there have been a substantial number [...]
Scarlet
A triumphant return to the rich aesthetics and enchanting artistry of Martin Eden, Scarlet is Italian director Pietro Marcello's second narrative feature to grapple with Europe's past. The film unwinds [...]
1998 Retrospective: The Best Films of 1998
Even in 1998, people were claiming cinema was dying. As I recall, I was told this as I had a VHS copy of The Big Lebowski in my hand, and [...]