Licorice Pizza comes together by never really coming together. Not unlike driving backwards, it eventually reaches its destination, albeit memorably unconventionally, and a little precariously. It’s coming-of-age meander- stunted, naive, or otherwise- is entirely the delicious point.
The Awkwardness and the Ecstasy
Directed by Richard Ayoade (2010)
It was impossible to watch Richard Ayoade’s Submarine without thinking of Wes Ander...
A Woman Like Eve/The Debut/The Cool Lakes of Death
ALL THREE DIRECTED BY NOUCHKA VAN BRAKEL
Who is Nouchka van Brakel, the strikingly feminist Dutch ...
Sundance Favorite Is One of the Best of 2020
DIRECTOR: LEE ISAAC CHUNG/2020
Nothing about Lee Isaac Chung’s breakthrough film Minari looks like my ch...
Don't Believe the Hype: Cuties Has Important Things to Say
DIRECTED BY MAÏMOUNA DOUCOURÉ/FRENCH/2020
Timing is everything. Cuties has either the worst p...
Steve Guttenberg Hits the Scene in 60’s-based 1970s Teen Comedy.
DIRECTED BY FRANCIS SIMON/1977
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: MAY 26, 2020/KL STUDIO CLASSICS ...
Rockers David Essex, Ringo Starr, and Keith Moon Star in Darkly Tinged Nostalgic Drama.
DIRECTED BY CLAUDE WHATHAM/1973
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: JULY 7, 2020...
Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990), A Summer in La Goulette (1996), and Zizou and the Arab Spring (2016)
BLU-RAY STREET DATES: APRIL 16, 2019/KINO LORBE...
The Boys are All Right
DIRECTED BY GENE STUPNITSKY / 2019
I'm certain that there will be those who will hold Good Boys up as a prime example of our d...
The lion’s share of any specific praise for Bright Angel tends to go to Lili Taylor, a still-fresh face on the scene at the time. The role of Lucy is manna for any actor, a character both laid bare while also impenetrable.
