Of an Age
Coming straight off his artful but uneven art-house horror debut, You Won't Be Alone, which was a period piece set in 19th century Macedonia, Goran Stolevski proves to be quite [...]
Emily
Far from being another musty costume period piece, Frances O'Connor's debut feature, Emily, is more akin to Jane Campion's arthouse dramas and Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion in just how uniquely [...]
Godland
Austere and magnificently bold, Godland marks a continuation of Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason's study of troubled masculinity within severely harsh environments. Heretofore his first feature Winter's Brother had a setting [...]
Return to Seoul
Cambodian French filmmaker Davy Chou (Diamond Island) manages to pull off a deeply spirited character study and existential journey with Return to Seoul, a moody and convulsively lyrical yarn about [...]
Baby Ruby
Postpartum depression, a severely important medical condition, is explored with mixed results in Baby Ruby. A film that sadly suffers from endless jump scares and writing issues, as it ends [...]
2003 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2003
It's now been twenty years since what I consider the golden year of 21st century filmmaking. While there have been many great years so far this century with 2001, 2002, [...]
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Now an unforeseen trilogy that was started by Oscar-winning auteur Steven Soderbergh with Magic Mike (2012) quickly became an unexpected sleeper hit during that summer movie season. It suddenly generated [...]
Cairo Conspiracy
A generally engrossing espionage thriller that offers some slight emotional resonance marks Cairo Conspiracy into a favorable suspense drawer, recounting a young college student and son of a fisherman who [...]
The Blue Caftan
A somber but delicate portrait about everlasting love, repressed desires, artistry, compassion, illness, and finally tolerance, The Blue Caftan officially closes the last slate of international films released last year [...]
One Fine Morning
Watching Mia Hansen-Løve's One Fine Morning is a fresh reminder of just how skillful of a storyteller she is, who often writes engaging characters who find themselves with sudden vulnerabilities [...]