Reviews of independent cinema
MAY 22, 2018 Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio has had quite a year. In March, he won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film for “A Fantastic Woman,” a…
MAY 17, 2018 The national box office returns got severely shaken up this weekend. It seems that a small documentary smashed into the national Top 10, just behind “Black…
MARCH 15, 2018 I know that I swore that I had closed the door on 2017. But in the words of former Presidential confidante Hope Hicks, that was a…
FEBRUARY 21, 2018 I know that I’m a bad gay for waiting so long to review Best Picture nominee “Call Me By Your Name” (it’s been in theaters for…
DECEMBER 18, 2017 What the hell happened to Woody Allen’s writing? Yes, I know that he has recently had more bad movies than good (I’m thinking of “Irrational Man”…
DECEMBER 6, 2017 One of the more pleasant surprises of this moviegoing year has been the growing quality of Netflix original films. Already we have had Noam Baumbach’s wonderful…
NOVEMBER 13, 2017 Writer/director Richard Linklater is nothing if not wide-ranging in his taste. From the stoner comedy “Dazed and Confused,” the achingly romantic “Before…” trilogy and the Academy…
OCTOBER 25, 2017 Boy, I wish I liked this film better than I do. Stories that are told decades apart from one another can sometimes work (spectacularly well, in…
OCTOBER 17, 2017 This is a tough one. I saw this film at a screening in Palm Springs, and in an audience of supposed cineastes, I saw people walking…
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017 I knew very little about Robert Pattinson during his star-making period in the “Twilight” series. I know that I’m a bad critic because I skipped all…
