Peele: Us (2019)
Jordan Peele’s latest film is the next step in his ongoing process of reinventing and rethinking American horror cinema from the inside out. Like Get Out, it’s acutely [...]
March 2019
Bujalski: Support the Girls (2018)
Andrew Bujalski’s latest film, Support the Girls, is one of the most moving and understated workplace dramas I’ve seen in a long time. Most of it takes place over one [...]
Lowery: The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
The Old Man & the Gun is slated to be Robert Redford’s final film, and it feels as if David Lowery wrote and directed it with that in mind, since this is as much an [...]
Zhangke: Shānhé gùrén (Mountains May Depart) (2015)
Mountains May Depart continues the anthology approach of A Touch of Sin, Jia Zhangke’s previous film. This time around, the characters are continuous, but are presented to [...]
Jordan: Greta (2018)
As digital streaming platforms have eclipsed traditional cinema, there has been a renewed fascination with the erotic thrillers that defined the Hollywood look at the [...]
Noxon: Sharp Objects (2018) (HBO)
Created by showrunner Marti Noxon, Sharp Objects is an adaptation of the Gillian Flynn book of the same name, released as her debut novel in 2006. The film stays pretty close [...]
Von Trier: The House That Jack Built (2018)
Few recent films have been preceded by as much notoriety as The House That Jack Built, Lars Von Trier’s riposte to being declared persona non grata at Cannes following his [...]
Godard: Le livre d’image (The Image Book) (2018)
A hundred years ago, Soviet directors started to sense that film was not merely a useful mechanism for disseminating socialism, but might be an inherently socialist medium in [...]
Jenkins: If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
One of the rarest things to see in American cinema is naturalistic or lyrical depictions of black middle class life. While we have images of poverty, slavery and squalor at [...]
Assayas: Doubles vies (Non-Fiction) (2018)
Like Olivier Assayas’ last two films, Non-Fiction is peculiarly preoccupied with the aesthetic implications of the iPhone in our everyday lives. However, he takes a very [...]