Black River One of Masaki Kobayashi’s many scathing statements on the sad state of Japan following the American military’s occupation,...

Produced earlier in the same year that saw the release of Hara-Kiri–the director’s scathing, blood soaked indictment of the popular,...

In his final film, director Kenji Mizoguchi makes his most powerful statement on his favorite theme: the suffering of women in Japanese...

Yesterday, I watched Shochiku’s Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell, a haunting, cynical, and brutally honest examination of human behavior–and...

The flight is far from uneventful. Blood-red clouds envelop the plane. Seemingly suicidal birds smash themselves against the windows by...

Len Wiseman can now sleep a bit more easily, secure in the knowledge that he is no longer responsible for the worst Die Hard movie ever...

Unremarkable. That’s it. That one word sums up my feelings toward Silent Hill: Revelation. Utterly unremarkable. It’s almost remarkable...

I’ll give Paul W.S. Anderson this much: he’s made the best-looking film of his career. From the opening sequence—an explosive action...

It opens with vacation footage. Three stereotypical American tourists do stereotypical American tourist-y things, skipping and laughing...

Battleship is a fantastic romantic comedy. It throws together all the classic genre ingredients: the handsome, compassionate, but...

I won’t bury the lede: I don’t think that Incredibles 2 is as good as the original. And honestly, that’s not surprising; fourteen years...

Thor: Ragnarok hit theaters this weekend, but there’s another, smaller comic book adaptation playing at Village East Cinema that I simply...

As Studio Ghibli restructures in the wake of co-founder Hayao Miyazaki’s… “retirement,” several of its former employees (including...

The Secret World of Arrietty (scripted by veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki and directed by first-timer Hiromasa Yonebayashi) once again...

There’s a brilliant moment in Bob Fosse’s adaptation of Cabaret that’s always stuck with me: our heroes are attending a picnic on a...

Caught a screening of Won’t You Be My Neighbor? at Angelika. I’ll be honest: despite its almost universally positive reception, I went...

On something of a whim (thanks to a sudden and aggressive marketing push by MoviePass), I headed over to Union Square to catch a...

As part of its last major series of midnight screenings, Sunshine Cinema played Stop Making Sense, the late Jonathan Demme’s Talking...

Caught a screening of The Flute and the Arrow at Metrograph. I’d never heard of it before, but it’s old and foreign, which always piques...

Popped over to FilmStruck to watch Gray’s Anatomy, a captivating monologue by famed oral storyteller Spalding Gray. As is often the case...