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Asghar Farhadi asks questions about our capacity for deception in About Elly, his 2009 feature about a woman who goes missing on a short vacation outside of Tehran. If that setup rings a bell, the Ira...
Samuel Fuller’s most controversial and confronting film, White Dog, tells the story of a young woman who discovers that her adopted dog has been trained to attack Black people on sight. Determined to ...
Argentinian writer and director Damián Szifrón opens Wild Tales with a disturbingly funny, almost anecdotal opener to his anthology. A model named Isabel (María Marull) boards a plane and encounters a...
In Michael Winterbottom’s at once blithe and bleak satire of the super-rich, aptly titled Greed, Steve Coogan plays Sir Richard McCreadie, the so-called “Monet of Money,” also nicknamed “Sir Shifty” a...
A promising debut feature from the writer-director team of Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman, Extra Ordinary is just clever, funny, and referential enough to earn a modest cult following. The film premiere...
Buffaloed is the offspring of a threesome between The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Big Short (2015), and I, Tonya (2017). Like those films, this comedy hangs much of its appeal on the charismatic c...
Approaching this review of Come to Daddy, I realize it isn’t something I want to write about at all; it’s something I want you to watch, and after you see it, I want to talk about every detail with yo...
In The Rhythm Section, the twentysomething Stephanie Patrick has descended into a life of drug addiction and prostitution following the death of her family in a mysterious plane crash three years ago....
The Jerk yearns for great stupidity. Its rags to riches (then to rags and riches again) story is merely a framework on which to hang jokes. If pressed, one could draw some lesson about the dangers of ...
