DIRECTED BY: ALISON CHERNICK/2018
KINO LORBER STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 6, 2018
As I mentioned in my initial review of the film Itzhak, which celebrates the a...
As the enigmatic cinema purist Mathias (Corentin Fila) is fixated upon, A Paris Education itself aims to be an ideal film about life and beauty and what is true. “Manufactured scenarios” and identifiable artifice is supposedly off the table, yet this viewer found one major character development after another to be literally predictable.
A Subtly Charged Nail-biting Work of Social Lamp-lighting
DIRECTED BY XAVIER LEGRAND/FRENCH/2018 (U.S. Theatrical Release)
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: OCTOBER 3...
A Complicated Response to a Complicated Awards Contender
DIRECTOR: PETER FARRELLY/2018
At this point in awards season—I’m sorry, Awards Season—it’s d...
Ethan Hawke Leads One of the Best Films of the Year
DIRECTOR: PAUL SCHRADER/2018
In college, I suffered from an acute depression. I’m not sure if tha...
DIRECTED BY: MIMI LEDER/2018
Daniel Stiepleman, who was the screenwriter for the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg-based film, On the Basis of Sex, had a unique p...
