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Jan 4, 2023
Baby Driver
Kore-eda’s crime story ‘Broker’ is beautifully, heartbreakingly sad
At first glance, Broker appears to be a sinister crime story with an especially disturbing angle. In contemporary Busan, South Korea, two men are in the business of “stealing” unwanted...
Dec 28, 2022
Wild Kingdoms
Keanu the ocelot, meet Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary
A critic’s confession: I love movies about nature and wild animals. As kids, we were wowed by Walt Disney’s Yellowstone wildlife documentary, Bear Country (so, evidently, was Ernest Hemingway). Later...
Dec 21, 2022
Schlock-a-palooza
‘Babylon’ discovers new depths in obnoxious filmmaking
Slowly, steadily, almost imperceptibly, standards for commercial motion picture entertainment—particularly in screenwriting—have been slipping, right before everyone’s eyes. Often the lowering process is barely noticeable. Occasionally, however, the dumbing-down takes a...
Dec 14, 2022
Borderline Loco
The hero of ‘Bardo’ discovers one can’t go home again
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo may be a bit too long (159 stretched-out minutes) and cluttered, but there’s no denying he’s sincerely trying to tell viewers something about himself...
Dec 7, 2022
Wooden Mythology
A fantasy double feature with ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ and Martika Ramirez Escobar’s ‘Leonor Will Never Die’
Puppet kid Pinocchio looks like a convention of toothpicks, or perhaps an animated pile of splinters in the shape of a...
Nov 30, 2022
Noise Canceling
‘White Noise’ is redundant; ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ is the antithesis
Noah Baumbach’s White Noise is a catastrophe for three-quarters of its running time. Probably the kindest thing that can be said about the story of...
Nov 23, 2022
Semper Fidelis
In ‘The Inspection,’ a gay homeless Black man joins the Marines—and finds himself
A young Black gay man in his early 20s decides to better himself by enlisting in the Marine Corps. We can already imagine the clearing...