Those who know me are aware that I am not the biggest fan of Paolo Sorrentino, the acclaimed Italian filmmaker…
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Benny Safdie’s solo directorial debut arrives with heavyweight expectations. “The Smashing Machine” tells the story of former UFC and PRIDE superstar…
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” – Cary Grant Although Noah Baumbach’s “Jay…
Ever since he was a film critic and worked as a video archivist for Martin Scorsese, director Kent Jones has…
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…
Even though I am not his biggest fan, one thing I admire about Richard Linklater is that he never stays…
Long live the New York auteur! But, where have they all gone? Curiously, Michael Atkinson’s essay, “Whatever Happened to the…