The meme-able moments come early and often in Les Blank’s “Burden of Dreams” (1982). And it’s not just the towering…
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.
The best role Shelley Duvall played was herself. No one could do it better. Plenty have tried: I recently rewatched…
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Leave it to Ken Loach, that grizzled realist, a seven-decade surveyor of the British working class, to make a sly…
Rare is the film that ought to be longer; bad films are often too long and the greatest are able…
A maze of excess which pairs peril and sudden shrieks of laughter, Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man” basks in a…
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