Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
“When life hands you conundrums, you turn them into art.” What I’ve always admired about movies – and what I’ve long loved about all of the many forms of art […]
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Menashe (2017)
“Besides marriage and kids, what else is there?” The intimate, delightful, and at times painfully tragic Menashe is a film that comes to you as a blindsiding surprise, welcoming and inviting us […]
Lemon (2017)
“I booked a thing.” Some movies intentionally take us off the beaten path to ill-effect, giving us a bumpy ride without anything meaningful to really latch onto. Take the […]
The Hero (2017)
“Movies are other people’s dreams.” Whether it be male or female (but definitely more unusual for women), roles for actors well past the twilight of their youth come too few […]
Dina (2017)
“That’s what friends are for; to help each other.” Dina Buno has never met a stranger. She chats with whomever happens to be sitting next to her on the bus, tries […]
Equals (2016)
“A cure is right around the corner.” Not since Andrew Niccol’s superb 1997 thriller Gattaca have I seen a sci-fi film that suspends belief as immediately and effectively as Equals. Monochromatic, antiseptic, […]
Little Men (2016)
“If you move in, I can show you around.” When you read that quote and watch Ira Sachs’ latest ode to New York – his third straight in four years […]
Dheepan (2016)
“The three of us have a secret.” The two most perplexing and telling shots in Dheepan hone in on an elephant, the camera fixed while the giant slowly moves in and out of […]
The Alchemist Cookbook (2016)
“Your brain is fried.” Michigan native Joel Potrykus makes polarizing movies that continue to sway me towards pledging allegiance to the opposite cap of his cult loving audience. 2014’s Buzzard did nothing for […]
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
“How do we keep it running? How do we guard it?” Few filmmakers, or even just modern artists – to my knowledge – wax poetic quite like Werner Herzog. He […]
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