The premise behind Evan Morgan's The Kid Detective definitely hit upon my nostalgia as a big fan of the HBO Encyclopedia Brown series when I was a kid. You do ...
The career of François Ozon is delightfully absurd. For every gem––8 Women, Swimming Pool, Frantz––there is an (often entertaining) stumble. (Meet Ricky.) Yet ...
We're
often told growing up that every story has two sides so that we can learn how to
put ourselves into another's shoes and see whether actions we thought we...
There's
a big difference beyond adaptation and assimilation. One is additive. The other
is subtractive. One deals in compromise with two sides adjusting their
...
“How do you feel about the crime you committed? Remorse for the victim?” This question is posed early in Under the Open Sky to an aging figure named Mikami. He...
It's
the kind of grift that would make 'Slippin'" Jimmy McGill proud. Marla
Grayson (Rosamund Pike) calls up her friend Dr. Amos (Alicia Witt) to get a
line on...
It is apropos that Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby is screening in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Discovery platform. It is a discovery, in every sense: ...
Two Africans, an Afghan, and a Syrian walk onto a remote island in Scotland. The punch line potential is infinite. Writer/director Ben Sharrock knows it too as...
You
can only hide so many eviction notices underneath the porch flowerpot before a
bank official finds and tapes them all onto the front door. This is where we...
Director
Argyris Papadimitropoulos' Monday
feels like it's going to be a wild ride right from the start as Chloe (Denise
Gough) screams into her phone at the v...
