I Lost My Body
A visually sumptuous slice of macabre storytelling that works best when it uses its director’s magical sense of composition and less when it feels weighed…
Friedkin Uncut
Superficial in some ways, deeply insightful in others, this is still a must-see for cinephiles.
30 Minutes on "The Post"
Underrated in the manner of so many Steven Spielberg historical dramas, “The Post” is a journalism thriller that doubles as a stealth portrait of the media’s responsibility in the age of Trump.
Son of the father: Peter Fonda, 1940-2019
From a childhood of pain, a lifetime of art.
30 Minutes on: "Crawl"
When I was a college student in Dallas in the 1980s, my favorite theater was the Big Town, which showed second-run movies for a dollar. It was located in a small, run-down mall that probably hadn’t been thriving for 10 years. By the time I started going there, there were potholes and canyon-sized cracks in the parking lot that were never going to be fixed, so you just made a mental note to drive around them. Most of the storefronts were boarded up, and the handful of spaces that were occupied were Mom and Pop businesses. There were people in the parking lot on the way in selling churros and pralines and BBQ they’d cooked in the backs of pickup trucks. One time a chicken got loose and ran through the mall. Kids chased it like it was Rocky Balboa in a training montage.
The Angry Birds Movie 2
An improvement on the original.
The Kitchen
A great premise is undercut by a script that keeps pushing to make its characters less complicated than they could be.
After the Wedding
Sincere but often frustrating family drama set among the ultra-rich.
The Active Eye: D.A. Pennebaker, 1924-2019
Appreciating the art of one of the greatest documentary filmmakers.
Them That Follow
A spare, tough, unrelentingly bleak story of a scandal within a community of Appalachian snake handlers.
The Unloved, Part 68: K-19: The Widowmaker
Our monthly series on underrated films turns to a movie about Russians.
