The unforgiving landscape of the snow-capped Pyrenees sets the stage for this coming of age film of frustrated homosexual love. It is a tale of two high school outsiders at odds with one another. One, – a mountain lion of a farmer’s son – effortlessl …Read more

The benefit of being young is that, seemingly, we have all the time to grow old. We have all the time to make mistakes and meet new people until one day we realize that things don’t change that much and what we need to survive isn’t always the same a …Read more

Pablo Larraín’s Neruda is a beautiful film and a bold challenge to the boring formulae of biopics. The flow of the film isn’t governed by facts and dates, but by moods and emotions, taking the audience on a dizzying journey through seemingly differen …Read more

In The Rehearsal, director and New Zealand native Alison Maclean returns to her homeland to adapt the first novel of New Zealand’s young literary star Eleanor Catton. Taking place mostly in the confines of an elite drama school, even as it eschews co …Read more

13TH Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Dawson City: Frozen Time Everything Else Fire at Sea Graduation Neruda Paterson The 54th New York Film Festival …Read more

It’s almost impossible to sit through Ava DuVernay’s 13TH without wanting to set the world on fire. Her chronicle of the way in which African American males have been criminalized, and are in fact still under the constant threat of legal slavery in A …Read more

It’s nice to see a dude-centric comedy that actually has the nerve to suggest that maybe being a dude isn’t that impressive. Bob Castrone makes this point in Flock of Dudes, which stars Chris D’Elia as Adam, a thirty-something man whose life is basic …Read more

A Man Called Ove is a Norwegian film based on a Norwegian book whose English translation is doing brisk business in the US. It is about a cranky old man who is “given a new lease on life” upon meeting his spirited new neighbors. It has the sort of sy …Read more

“If I could write a screenplay about my life,” says Choi Eun-hee, the 89 year old South Korean actress, “I would only include the glamorous shots.” Lucky for Choi, she’s the star of Rob Cannan’s and Ross Adam’s engrossingly glossy doc, The Lovers and …Read more

Humor is the best way to tell an uncomfortable truth and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast is a reminder. This movie is big, smart, a continuous joy to watch – and dead serious. Using a colorful approach to a horrifying topic, Palast us …Read more