Category: Movie Reviews

Buoyed by a traditionally spectacular ensemble, “The Phoenician Scheme” feels unlikely to be anyone’s favorite Wes Anderson flick, but it’s so easy to like that it’s equally difficult to hate it.

He’s made a film about divided communities, and he hopes in his own way to do the same to his audience.

While the autobiographical elements are incredibly light, there’s enough humility here to make the viewer surrender to the film’s melodic charms.

This documentary about a protest at a deaf university is as smartly conceived and constructed as it is thrilling to watch

Uma’s repartee accounts for much of the laughs, but even more so is Apte’s ferociously committed physical performance.

The setting is more than a century ago, but the longing for love and the struggle for intimacy are universally human.

As with Yamanaka’s scrappy debut, there is a spirit of youthful rebellion in “Desert of Namibia.”

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 […]

Patient, naturalistic dialogue exchanges set the tone for this warm and often moving portion of Haugerud’s trilogy.

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.