What Still Alice posits on the most basic level about its title character’s decline is profoundly counterintuitive. Highly intelligent people, Alice’s doctor su...
Depending on your attitude, the 5-hour, 38-minute length of Lav Diaz’s From What Is Before might represent a handicap in its favor, or a demerit. A certain stri...
After sweeping Sundance, stopping by Cannes, Toronto and, shortly, NYFF, I had finally had the chance to check out Damien Chazelle's Whiplash. While a full ...
After crafting the extraordinary coming-of-age drama Goodbye First Love, director Mia Hansen-Løve has returned this fall with Eden. Premiering at TIFF and t...
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There are at least two problems with the phrase “self-discovery”: a) the idea that discovering the self is a discrete act; b) the idea that the self is a discre...
A teenage girl, captured through a static wide shot, runs through a quaint Detroit suburb, her body dwarfed by its trees and middle-class homes. The sense that ...
La Sapienza opens with a montage of Italy’s greatest architectural wonders -- cathedrals, domes, churches, and more shot in perfect lighting, propelled to grand...
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Writer/director David Oelhoffen has a special film on his hands because it's powerful tale begs audience members to learn more about the subject. I'm not talkin...
