The control + F combination on my keyboard has gotten a workout lately now that Film at Lincoln Center’s ‘New…
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.
Grieving about her culpability in a highly-publicized local suicide, bailiff Orsolya Ionescu (Eszter Tompa) is told repeatedly that it wasn’t…
How do you prefer your Julia Ducournau cooked? Well, there is “Raw†(2016), Ducournau’s bold, grisly—and yes, raw—debut, an instant…
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…
When Roger Ebert died, Werner Herzog mourned the loss of his friend and champion, labeling the great critic a “good…
Time can be an unsparing villain or an angelic savior in Christian Petzold’s films. In his enigmatic period-piece “Phoenix†(2014),…
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” – Cary Grant Although Noah Baumbach’s “Jay…