Reviews
The Birth of a Nation
You’re not being told a story here so much as being sold a career.
You’re not being told a story here so much as being sold a career.
For the 34th installment in his series about maligned masterworks, Scout Tafoya examines Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem.
Still grimly funny and bracingly nasty after nearly fifty years, this is a world-weary anti-authority comedy fronted by Lee Marvin's knife-blade face.
A furious and often terrifying documentary about the militarization of US police.
A heist film populated almost entirely by dunderheads; very funny.
Matt Zoller Seitz celebrates "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," now available on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD.
A tribute to the late Godfather of Gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis.
The Lovers and the Despot takes a fascinating story about filmmaking, politics, kidnapping and propaganda and gives us almost no insight into the work of its two main characters, a director and his actress wife.