The premise of The Lobster might sound like quirky fun: if you remain single for 45 days, you will be turned into an animal. But the movie is much more than its initial premise, creating an entire dystopic world with a disconcerting, but intermittent …Read more
Jane Austen has long been haunting Whit Stillman’s films. A bookish socialite during cotillion season alludes to Austen novels while making polite conversation. A Darcy-esque suitor emerges in Studio-54-era New York. Above all, Stillman’s subject, li …Read more
What a difference a day makes. When we first meet Sonia Bonet (Jana Raluy) it’s nighttime, and she has been awoken by the grunts of her ill husband who has fallen off the bed in pain. The paramedics who arrive tell her that his condition will worsen …Read more
The eighth edition of Panorama Europe returns to the Museum of the Moving Image and the Bohemian National Hall from May 6-22. In 2016 the festival will present 19 films from countries ranging from Greece to Lithuania, and genres that go from coming o …Read more
The most genre-inflected Palme d’Or winner of the 21st century, Dheepan brings director Jacques Audiard’s brash but nuanced aesthetic to bear on a tragic tale of immigration. Former Sri Lankan guerilla Dheepan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan, himself once a …Read more
If you’re a dreamer, you’ll understand this: as odds increase, bigger miracles are required. Bigger faith, harder perseverance. Stuck in a Walmart-like job, woman with a dream Janet Vokes was the fuel behind the Welsh pub-based network that broke int …Read more
With the lifting of the embargo between the United States and Cuba, the film industry is rushing to capitalize on the island’s forbidden allure. The early results are dispiriting, indicating that Hollywood can only imagine this unique culture to be a …Read more
The documentary Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray is a rightly-due tribute where none existed before, bringing those unfamiliar with this iconoclast artist further generations of admirers. Though raised and attending art school in Chicago, Elizabeth M …Read more
Ratchet & Clank is an animated film based on a popular PlayStation video game series about a group of space defenders called the Galactic Rangers who are set on protecting the universe from the appropriately titled Doctor Nefarius (voiced by Armi …Read more
As any New Yorker will tell you, New York after Hurricane Sandy was no laughing matter. With flooded streets, blackouts, and massive fires, it seemed as if the prophecies from all those terrible summer blockbusters had become a reality. And yet, the …Read more
