The a-ha moment in Mary Bronstein’s relentless psychodrama “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You†came when the hysterical, shrill-voiced,…
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.
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…
Michael Angelo Covino’s scattered and silly “Splitsville†(2025) was made by film lovers for film lovers. In some ways, it’s…
“Souley from Paris!†That loose, friendly greeting comes early and often in Boris Lojkine’s tense pressure-cooker “Souleymane’s Story†(2024), but…
Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude†is a committed, unflinching chronicle of poetic brutality. Or, is it brutal poetry? It’s the…
The toaster that pops in Ruth Goldman’s (Kathleen Chalfant) immaculate kitchen early on in Sarah Friedland’s “Familiar Touch†might as…