Thanks
to a bout of syphilis contracted before the age of fifteen, Alphonse Gabriel
"Scarface" Capone found himself trapped inside a prison much worse
than the...
Avoiding the trappings of other melodramas about the short lives of terminally ill teens, Asia is a restrained and nuanced exploration of the relationship betw...
Any professional dealing with routine levels of stress and trauma is bound to develop a morbid sense of humor–and the funny horror-comedy 12 Hour Shift might b...
Before a screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour a few years ago at the New York Film Festival, programmer Dennis Lim read a note from t...
We're
introduced to Karen (Otmara Marrero) in bed as her older girlfriend D. (Sonya
Walger) wakes her. While the former wants to sleep in, the latter seeks
ins...
When
films like Rewind are presented as
exercises to reconstruct circumstances surrounding the sexual abuse its
filmmaker endured, you can assume the journey w...
As
Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) shares during an early voiceover, organized crime in the
backwoods of southern America isn't very organized. This is good since few of...
Exploring the relationships between comedians and the women that made them funny, Call Your Mother is a fun and sincere ode to the creative process. Directed b...
There’s something wonderful about a childhood experience like those chronicled in Through the Night, a film that mostly looks at the hardships of motherhood bu...
Channeling both his debut feature The Lie and Humpday, his mumblecore outing with director Lynn Shelton, Joshua Leonard's Fully Realized Humans is an emotional...
