In a hypothetical awards category of Best Faces, “The Secret Agent” (2025) would leave any ceremony with the statue. Pinpointing…
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.
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…
The a-ha moment in Mary Bronstein’s relentless psychodrama “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” came when the hysterical, shrill-voiced,…
Ulrich Köhler knows what we’re expecting. Spending any amount of time out in the world or inside a movie theater…
The too-early whispers from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival had a then-unheralded Mascha Schilinski in the frontrunner position for the…
A personal opinion: Paul Thomas Anderson is the greatest living American filmmaker not named Martin Scorsese. Linking these two is…
The luminous, gone-too-soon New Hollywood chameleon Karen Black (1939-2013) makes an absolute feast of what might on paper read like…
Long live the New York auteur! But, where have they all gone? Curiously, Michael Atkinson’s essay, “Whatever Happened to the…