Raymond Carver bristled at the term “minimalism,†when it was used to describe his work. His prose, with its spare…
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.
Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) sits at a desk in a dimly-lit room, writing in a notebook. In another movie, this…
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…
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Literary adaptations are having a moment. In 2021, four of the year’s most acclaimed films — “Drive My Car,” “The…
On January 6, 2022, both Sidney Poitier and Peter Bogdanovich died, a harsh dual blow to the film industry. Reflecting…
No filmmaker was as instrumental to the development of the American independent film industry as John Cassavetes and “Love Streams”…