Review: Free Solo
Free Solo is a fantastic documentary, both breathtakingly beautiful and heart-stoppingly harrowing; it’s an absolute sin that “Best...
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Free Solo is a fantastic documentary, both breathtakingly beautiful and heart-stoppingly harrowing; it’s an absolute sin that “Best...
Tonight, Metrograph continued its Hou Hsiao-hsien retrospective with a screening of Café Lumière, a film commissioned to commemorate the...
Werner Herzog: And so, Earth spins silently in its dark void, cold and indifferent to the parasites that have taken up residence on its...
Adult Version of Protagonist: And that's the story of the summer that changed our lives forever. Unfortunately, me and the guys kind of...
Recently, Rian Johnson has developed a reputation as the director that singlehandedly ruined Star Wars forever. And I think that’s...
Caught a screening of Three Times. True to its title, this immaculately-crafted Taiwanese anthology film is split into three episodes,...
[WARNING: The following review contains SPOILERS!] Despite the caustic critical reception it’s attracted, I think Glass is a perfectly...
Following this morning’s announcement of this year’s Oscar nominees, I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. I decided to...
Since it’s currently about sixteen degrees Fahrenheit outside, I decided to stay indoors and enjoy one of my Christmas gifts: Don’t...
Popped in another Christmas present (though I purchased this one myself, using an Amazon gift card—thanks, Tom the DP): Arrow Video’s...
Out of all the movies I received as Christmas gifts, I was most excited to watch True Stories. I’ve been dying to experience this...
Premise: When lifelong pals Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, through sheer dumb luck and no shortage of bumbling, manage to...
A sadistic serial killer, known only as “The Ghost” due to his ability to strike without warning and vanish without a trace, stalks the...
Premise: Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Only the Avatar, the bridge between the worlds of humans and spirits, reincarnated throughout the ages,...
It’s the government’s dirty little secret: a rehabilitation program for super-powered criminals, offering reduced prison sentences in...
You are Ichi—blind masseur, lonesome wanderer, deadly swordsman. You long for a life of peace, but wherever you go, you inevitably find...
Plot: Years after discovering his true heritage, Kal-El (Henry Cavill), now a full-time protector of the innocent, unearths a lost marvel...
Premise: A kid-friendly remake of The Big Lebowski, which features The Dude’s young son (the result of his brief fling with Maude...
Plot: Intent on throwing a wrench into the gears of Hitler’s war machine, British general Ed Fenech (Mike Myers) offers a ragtag group of...
Plot: When the severely mutilated corpses of some of New York City’s most dangerous costumed assassins are discovered in an abandoned...