In a wordless opening sequence that launches “The Currents” (2025) designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González-Sola) graciously receives a professional award…
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.
New Yorker film critic Richard Brody wrote that there “are two ideal durations for a feature film: sixty-three minutes ……
Rosanne Pel’s “Donkey Days” (2025) is a rowdy, rambling beast that snickers at good taste. Pel doesn’t invite us in…
The control + F combination on my keyboard has gotten a workout lately now that Film at Lincoln Center’s ‘New…
Grieving about her culpability in a highly-publicized local suicide, bailiff Orsolya Ionescu (Eszter Tompa) is told repeatedly that it wasn’t…
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A surprising side effect of André Ricciardi’s chemotherapy is astonishingly long eyelashes. Ricciardi is the main subject, the brains and…
“I don’t psychoanalyze my sources,” the legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh tells Director Laura Poitras early on in “Cover-Up” (2025).…
Delirious, dangerous yet never quite jumping over the ledge, Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice” (2025) is a madcap revenge thriller…
In a hypothetical awards category of Best Faces, “The Secret Agent” (2025) would leave any ceremony with the statue. Pinpointing…