FEBRUARY 9, 2017 It’s the current favorite to win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Interested? Good. It’s from Germany. Still fine? It’s a comedy. Wait a minute. A…
FEBRUARY 2, 2017 Don’t let the nice lady with the kitty cat fool you. She is a woman with whom you do not want to mess. In fact, that…
MAY 10, 2016 Please stay with me on this one. Of all the movies currently in release, “Dheepan” may be the most torn-from-the-headlines relevant in exploring the phenomenon of…
APRIL 21, 2016 Her name was Florence Foster Jenkins, and you’ll be hearing a lot about her this summer. Jenkins was a prominent New York socialite who had a…
MARCH 14, 2016 While almost everybody likes a disaster movie — c’mon, ‘fess up, you do too — I have a particular love for for a less widely-loved sub-genre:…
OCTOBER 13, 2015 Melodrama has become quite a dirty word in film criticism circles. If a film is “melodramatic,” that usually translates into “wrenching tears for the cheapest possible…
SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 The plot of the new German melodrama “Phoenix” is absolutely preposterous. And the film itself is absolutely wonderful. Stay with me here. Nelly (Nina Hoss) is a…
