The latest edition of the ‘Greatest Films’ poll by Sight & Sound can mean many things to some people, or nothing to…
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.
Vicky Krieps: how does she do it? It’s tempting to call her effortless, since her characters tend to have such…
A legal drama that spends no time in an actual courtroom, Orson Welles’ “The Trial” (1962) takes a Hitchcockian conceit—the wrongfully…
Chantal Akerman’s 201-minute epic “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (1975) soared 34 spots to take over as…
On December 1st, Sight & Sound magazine will announce the results of its once-a-decade poll, surveying global critics, directors, and…
A restless, dizzyingly-curious auteur, Claire Denis is right at home filming in war-torn Nicaragua, reporting on the micro and macro…
Two months before the release of “King Kong” (1933) would make ‘The Scream Queen’ Fay Wray a star, audiences witnessed…
A grueling and gritty true-crime provocation, John McNaughton’s “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” fashions itself as an enigma, a…
Doris Day’s “Que Sera, Sera†plays at the beginning and end of “Father of My Children” (2009), Mia Hansen-Løve’s second…
The blend of horror and humor in Ken Russell’s “The Lair of the White Worm” goes too far in both…