Marco Bellocchio may have missed the mark with “The Traitor,” but he’s back in top form with “Exterior Night” (“Esterno…
Ah, Halloween; a fabled time of year. A time of spooky spectacle, delectable adventure, and of course, timeless stories of…
Raymond Carver bristled at the term “minimalism,” when it was used to describe his work. His prose, with its spare…
Alice Diop’s first attempt at fiction filmmaking, the ‘Silver Lion’-winning “Saint Omer,” is more than a courtroom drama as it…
“If you want to dance the mask, you must service the composer.” Todd Fields’ first feature in sixteen years, “TÁR”…
South Korean-born American filmmaker Kogonada (“After Yang,” “Pachinko”) brings a profound story about connection to the screen in his 2017…
In the closing credits of Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness,” Michael Haneke is listed among those the…
A goodie bag of candy-colored nostalgia, Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” is a stylish and ambitious take on Don DeLillo’s postmodern…
Bertrand Bonello’s “Coma” explores the existential miasma and uncertainty of the future through hallucinogenic playfulness in techniques and aesthetics. It creates…
After watching the 1999 film adaptation, I believe words cannot describe Tom Ripley. However, American author Patricia Highsmith uses the…