Look past the zany plot summary of Werner Herzog’s “Bucking Fastard.†Actually, no—embrace it, with a thick grain of mined…
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“It always looks like that,†Peter (Jordan Firstman) beams to an awestruck Arlo (Reggie Absolom), jointly admiring a luminous New…
Hyperbolic words and phrases like “masterpiece†and “best film of the year†are becoming all too common in an increasing…
Trigger warning: mention of sexual abuse, body dysmorphia and cannibalism. One may have heard of Placentophagy, aka the act of…
The film opens with a young disabled woman navigating a crowded city street in a wheelchair. At first, it feels…
Last things, the poet Tess Gallagher wrote in a forward to her husband Raymond Carver’s final poetry collection, “have rights…
Midway through Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord,†a despondent Lisbet (Renate Reinsve) pleads to her husband, asking what more she can do…
At first glance, it would be easy to dismiss “Trash Mountain” as just another formulaic dramedy. After all, it has…
Danny Boyle has cemented himself as one of the most ingenious filmmakers working today. So it feels like the perfectly…
A biopic telling the story of Ian Charleson battling through his AIDS diagnosis and escaping the jaws of death to…