It would be difficult to typecast Sandra Hüller because she’s such a chameleonic and timeless talent. For “Anatomy of a…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in New York. His favorite director is Robert Altman and he dearly misses Netflix's delivery DVD service.
Look past the zany plot summary of Werner Herzog’s “Bucking Fastard.” Actually, no—embrace it, with a thick grain of mined…
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New Yorker film critic Richard Brody wrote that there “are two ideal durations for a feature film: sixty-three minutes ……
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