Time out of Mind is the second film of this year’s New York Film Festival to deal with New York City homeless, but is very different from Heaven Knows What; where the Safdie brother’s film is a stylized look at the never-ending drama of junkies tryin …Read more

I Am Ali attempts to give a new perspective on one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating, controversial, and inspirational figures, Muhammad Ali. Ali is already the subject of documentaries and Michael Mann’s biopic; this new film uses intervie …Read more

With Gone Girl, David Fincher takes another dark-hearted bestseller and crafts it into a gripping, atmospheric thriller. For those who haven’t yet had the book pushed on them, the story centers on the marriage of Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy Dunne (Ros …Read more

It’s de rigueur for Hollywood satires to portray the conversations and mindsets of actors and the entertainment elite as painfully superficial and Maps to the Stars is no exception. But in this film, the product of a world-class meeting of misanthrop …Read more

Heaven Knows What opens with the slow burn of a fuse leading to an explosion. In a public library, Harley (Arielle Holmes) tries to get the attention of her boyfriend Ilya (Caleb Landry Jones), but he’s disinterested and rude. Harley has an ineffable …Read more

Yann Demange’s ’71 depicts what are so wildly euphemistically called “the troubles,” the decades of death and violence waged over the British presence in Ireland, but this film differs from most on the subject by featuring a young English soldier on …Read more

Like Francois Truffaut’s Jules and Jim, Dominik Graf’s film Beloved Sisters tells a story of a decades-long love triangle over a backdrop of European turmoil. Beloved Sisters takes its characters from history, but the story is not one of definite rec …Read more

“Someday we’ll all need interpreters to understand the words coming out of our mouths.” This line from the middle of Jean-Luc Godard’s latest film Goodbye To Language has a certain humor coming on the heels of the uproar his last film caused, by rele …Read more

Few storytelling devices are more tried and true than simply throwing some characters in a room together and locking the door, but that’s because it’s undeniably effective. By not allowing people to get up and leave, a film can create a pressure cook …Read more

The Skeleton Twins opens with a suicide attempt by Milo (Bill Hader), who is saved because he left his stereo blasting Blondie so loudly that his neighbors complained. His sister Maggie (Kristin Wiig), who hasn’t heard from Milo in ten years, receive …Read more