‘Hell-Bound Train’ (1930)—an ingenious moralizing oddity of early Black cinema
Reading Time: 3 minutes A few years ago, to fill in some gaps left by…
Review: ‘Pearl’ and ‘Blonde’: great horror, misleading marketing
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you stuck around through the end credits of Ti West’s retro slasher X this past spring,…
Review: Věra Chytilová’s ‘Daisies’ remains a defiant, delightful oddity
Reading Time: 2 minutes The first time I saw Věra Chytilová’s Daisies was on a double bill with Godard’s Weekend at…
Review: ‘Prey’ is a trophy case of good filmmaking
Reading Time: 2 minutes Concluding 2022’s surprise “women marching into the dark, unknowable wilderness” trilogy that began with Firestarter and Hellbender…
Review: ‘Strawberry Mansion’ an imaginative delight
Reading Time: 2 minutes Upon finishing the charmingly lo-fi Strawberry Mansion, which I and much of the rest of society missed…
Review: ‘Elvis’ + ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m hard pressed to name anything registering as a complete scene in Elvis, Baz Luhrmann’s fever dream…
Before MeToo, Egypt’s ‘Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story’ put a spotlight on gender inequality
Reading Time: 2 minutes African and Middle Eastern cinema tends to receive precious little attention in the United States, with Iran…
Review: ‘Hellbender’ invites us to live deliciously
Reading Time: 2 minutes If there’s a through-line to some of the best movies of 2022 thus far, it’s a fixation…
Review: ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ short on dinosaurs, entertainment
Reading Time: 2 minutes The original Jurassic Park had fewer than 100 visual effects shots. That they still look good decades…
Review: In the age of streaming, ‘Satantango’ remains as captivating as ever
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sátántangó’s opening shot follows a herd of cows wandering a desolate town. The shot is nearly eight…
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