Traffik
There isn’t an honest moment in all 96 minutes of Traffik.
The 15:17 to Paris
If only someone could've heroically intervened to save this movie.
Golden Exits
Can you make an entire feature about people that can't appreciate what they have and are incapable of getting out of their own way?
Overheard lives: an appreciation of eavesdropping in the city
Very few of the films or TV shows I write about are as fascinating and full of unruly life as the encounters I have every day in the city.
The Cloverfield Paradox
A handsomely produced B-movie that promises a dazzling, challenging voyage but leads nowhere.
The Unloved, Part 50: "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" and "The Counselor"
Part 50 of Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces.
Children of God in New York
A story about the meanest man in my old neighborhood and how he became less mean.
30 Minutes on: "Wonderstruck"
Todd Haynes' latest is a near-silent film with passages of great beauty but a concept that never quite gels.
American Folk
A cross-country road movie about a couple of folk musicians trying to get to New York right after 9/11.
The Final Year
A documentary about the final year of foreign policy during the Obama administration, and incidentally about the grim surprises that life sometimes has in store for the complacent.
The Commuter
Frustratingly not-quite-there from start to finish, the paranoia-soaked railroad thriller The Commuter is the latest installment in the unofficial "Liam Neeson Late Winter Butt Kickers" series.
