Great Movies
Reviews
Venus in Fur
A two-character drama about gender relations and sadomasochism, directed by Roman Polanski? Sounds like a sure thing. It's not.
A two-character drama about gender relations and sadomasochism, directed by Roman Polanski? Sounds like a sure thing. It's not.
MZS takes a hard-hitting, investigative look at his dad.
The sequel to "21 Jump Street" is post-entertainment entertainment. The joke's on everyone.
Tom Cruise saves the world again, but it takes a tremendous amount of effort and many, many lives to do it.
Let's make a game of it.
Scout Tafoya's series on critically reviled but substantive movies continues with Peter Bogdanovich's 1975 musical At Long Last Love.
Contrived and formulaic but also sweet and brilliantly acted, "The Grand Seduction" is a comedy in the tradition of "The Full Monty" and "Billy Elliott," about a dying Newfoundland fishing town hatching in a complex deception to lure a petroleum plant.
This revision of "Sleeping Beauty" is clumsily directed, and the effects and backdrops are CGI soup, but there are also images of primordial power, and Angelina Jolie is haunting.
In honor of the twentieth anniversary of "Pulp Fiction" premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, here's a video essay about Quentin Tarantino's cool characters, and how they mythologize themselves.
Richard Linklater discusses the release of Bernie Tiede and the production of "Boyhood."
