More belated link posting, this time on my piece for Showgirls , one of my favorite films of the '90s. You can read my article over at S...
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Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2013)
"The soft-focus images that introduce Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio directly place attention on the sound to get one’s bear...
I Dood It (Vincente Minnelli, 1943)
I was even less taken with Minnelli's second film than I was his first. A project thrown at his feet when its original director was fire...
A Hijacking (Tobias Lindholm, 2013)
The hijacking that gives Tobias Lindholm’s new film its title does not even occur on-screen. After being introduced to the crew of a Danish ...
Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli, 1943)
Minnelli's first film has the theatricality he brought with him from Radio City and would be with him for his whole career, but it lacks...
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They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)
I've seen They All Laughed twice, and the second time felt as magical as the first even as I could better settle in and appreciate the ...
Capsule Reviews: I Used to Be Darker, It Felt Like Love, Man of Steel
I Used to Be Darker (Matt Porterfield, 2013) Matt Porterfield’s film draws its title from Bill Callahan’s song “Jim Cain,” one of several ab...
This Is Martin Bonner (Chad Hartigan, 2013)
I've seen a number of great independent films this year, few better than Chad Hartigan's exceptional, wise-beyond-its-years This Is ...
Netflix Instant Picks (6/14/13—6/20/13)
Belatedly putting up last week's Netflix picks. Check 'em out here .
James Gandolfini (1961—2013)
UPDATE: The piece that I wrote here was republished by Film.com, where you can now find a slightly amended version (basically, less referenc...
Dirty Wars (Rick Rowley, 2013)
Slightly too focused on Jeremy Scahill himself as the journalist uncovers a massive, unsettling method of covert operations, Dirty Wars nev...
Student (Darezhan Omirbayev, 2013)
I was not particularly taken with Omirbayev's Student , a wan retelling of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment that reduces the compl...
Netflix Instant Picks (6/7/13—6/13/13)
Check out this week's Netflix Instant Picks over at Movie Mezzanine .
To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2013)
To the Wonder marks the fullest distillation of Terrence Malick’s style even as it violently shakes up the formula like nothing else in his...
School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)
One of these days I hope to write a more in-depth appreciation of this film, as well as Jack Black's exemplary performance in it. For no...
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Justin Lin, 2006)
I had such an unexpectedly good time at the most recent Fast and Furious movie, despite some reservations about its overbearing plotting, t...