A Hard Day is a madcap good cop vs. bad cop thriller streamlined for pleasure and plot twists. Bathed in unattractive fluorescence the movie has no qualms about looking good, but presses on with riveting velocity. On the drive to his mother’s funeral …Read more
Full of lush greenery and biodiversity, the Galapagos Islands have enchanted people for decades, but not everyone gets what they bargained for as it happens in Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, an intriguing …Read more
Silence in Dreamland earns the right to be nestled under “slow cinema” with its dearth of dialogue and longish takes, though not nearly as measured or ponderous as other subtropical climate-set films by Tsai Ming Liang or Aphichatphong Weerasethakul. …Read more
A lack of funds renders newly minted postgrad Dora (Eden Brolin) flightless, dashing her dreams of traveling to South America. Elizabeth Bishop she won’t be, but a few lines of introspection and its accompanying doodles point towards that direction ( …Read more
Shot in black and white, the debut feature from Alonso Ruizpalacio marks the arrival of a fresh new voice in world cinema. With jaunty camera Güeros captures a period of social unrest in Mexican history, while simultaneously composing a bittersweet l …Read more
Saint Laurent, a vibrant, buzzy biopic of the visionary French designer, plays like an extended high fashion ad campaign, prioritizing corporeal movement aided and abetted by shiny textures, music, and distant gazes. Yves Saint Laurent passed away in …Read more
Big Bird, the six foot tall, sunshine-yellow plumed creature, is perhaps the unofficial mascot and most recognizable entity on Sesame Street, but who is the man inside the feathered suit? David LaMattina and Chad N. Walker’s straightforward documenta …Read more
