Author: jose
Bono: Stories of Surrender
While the autobiographical elements are incredibly light, there’s enough humility here to make the viewer surrender to the film’s melodic charms.
Deaf President Now!
This documentary about a protest at a deaf university is as smartly conceived and constructed as it is thrilling to watch
Sister Midnight
Uma’s repartee accounts for much of the laughs, but even more so is Apte’s ferociously committed physical performance.
Desert of Namibia
As with Yamanaka’s scrappy debut, there is a spirit of youthful rebellion in “Desert of Namibia.”
The Damned
Roberto Minervini is a filmmaker whose previous works—including “Stop the Pounding Heart” (2013), “The Other Side” (2015) and “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire” (2018)—have often seen him combining the elements of narrative and documentary cinema to tell his stories in a manner that stresses realism over artifice. That is certainly the […]
Hurry Up Tomorrow
An overlong, aimless vanity project that will only satisfy folks who’ve already decided they’ll like it because of their existing affiliation with the artist.
Final Destination Bloodlines
It makes sense that a gore-soaked horror franchise built around the universal fear that our time is running out would be as elegant and precise as a stopwatch.