Author: Guest Author
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Clouds of Sils Maria Is a Master Work, Floating High Above
by Sam Fragoso IFC Films Editor’s note: Our review of Clouds of Sils Maria originally ran during TIFF 2014, but we’re re-posting it now as the…
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The Losers: Debra Granik Deserved an Oscar
by Lauren Schacher Roadside Attractions Over the past week, we’ve been Chicks Who Script chimes in on a director who launched a superstar. I will never…
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We Don’t Belong Together: The (500) Days of Summer Color Palette Theory
by Fergus Morton Fox Searchlight Pictures To preface, I’ve seen 500 Days of Summer maybe five or six times now and love everything about it. However,…
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‘Top Five’ Review: Chris Rock’s Stand-up Distilled Into Movie Form
by Sam Fragoso Paramount Pictures If we were to list some of the most horrific cultural tragedies of the 20th and 21st century, the paucity of…
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‘The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness’ is a Must for Studio Ghibli Fans
by Tom Clift GKIDS When you think of the films produced by Studio Ghibli, certain images inevitably spring to mind. A cat bus bounding across the…
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‘Listen Up Philip’ Review: Asshole Cinema At Its Finest
by Sam Fragoso Tribeca Film After two critically adored novels, success has hardened Philip’s heart and calcified any remaining slivers of decency that may have once…
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Great Russian Movies For People Who Don’t Think They Like Russian Movies
by Sergey Kuznetsov The Diamond Arm/Mosfilm Nobody loves Russian movies, even Russians themselves. Their films are very long, very slow, black & white or monochromatic.…
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‘Inherent Vice’ Review: A Wild and Weird Noir-Tinged Freakout
by Sean Hutchinson Warner Bros. In its 2009 review of writer Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice,” Rolling Stone said that it was “the funniest book Pynchon…
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‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’ Review: Kind of, Sort of, Maybe Enjoyable
by Sam Fragoso Relativity Media For 114-minutes Hector and the Search for Happiness walks the tightrope between nausea and uplift. A movie whose logline is “a…