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Aug 10, 2024
Film review: ‘Cuckoo’ takes time to sort out
Cuckoo clocks in at 102 minutes, but it will take at least that long for even the most forgiving horror movie fan to sort it all out after sitting through it.
Once the strenuous audio-visual effects are taken...
Aug 6, 2024
Colman Domingo shines in ‘Sing Sing’
Colman Domingo is one of the most significant character actors in American films today. Maybe the most significant, given his work in such films as Rustin, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, If Beale Street Could Talk, Zola, Blitz...
Jul 16, 2024
Shimizu Hiroshi honored at BAMPFA
It’s perfectly understandable to have never heard the name Shimizu Hiroshi mentioned in a discussion of the great classical Japanese filmmakers. Despite having directed almost 170 films from 1924 to 1959, and garnering praise from such distinguished...
Jul 9, 2024
It’s artists’ choice at Fraenkel Film Festival
The “double feature” craze keeps rolling. First came Turner Classic Movies’ “Two for One” series this Spring, in which an impressive lineup of filmmakers—Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Nicole Holofcener and more—selected a quirky list of...
Jun 29, 2024
‘Kinds of Kindness’ is Kind of a Chore
Here’s a quick “Test Your Entertainment-Biz Marketing Skills” quiz. How many aware, intelligent moviegoers wake up in the morning with the thought, “Gee, I’d like to see a really good allegory today”?
The obvious answer: None. Narrative films...
Jun 5, 2024
‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Travels a Familiar Highway
Re: George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: Once more, we find ourselves plunged into Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle.
Debord (1931-1994), a favorite French intellectual of the espresso-and-resistance crowd, published the above book in 1967,...
May 14, 2024
‘Evil Does Not Exist’ Gets Back to Nature
In a Japanese mountain community not far from Tokyo, a quiet, unassuming handyperson named Takumi (played by Omika Hitoshi) lives with his eight-year-old daughter, Hana (Nishikawa Ryô). While Hana attends the village school, her father engages in...
