Claw-in-Claw With The Lobster

Director Yorgos Lanthimos reveals the beast within

"...true love in 45 days, or you’ll be turned into a crustacean. It sounds like the setup for a..."

May 20, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Lobster

The Dogtooth director is back with another fractured parable

"...We are dropped into a pristine, bleak dystopia, one in which being single..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Belladonna of Sadness

This transgressive animated film from 1973 Japan has been recently restored. Blending gorgeous, watercolor-infused Japanese landscapes with Western influences like Art Nouveau and Expressionism, the film tells the sexually outré and hallucinogenic story of two lovers in a feudal village.

"...glass, we were still blown away (and we were into some crazy shit)...."

May 13, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Jennifer Chenoweth's XYZ Atlas

For years, the artist has been mapping locals' emotional experiences of the city and making them into art

"...since I left. For her, it was a foray into a tightly defined, and thus nearly inaccessible, otherland, a..."

May 13, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

City of Gold

Eat out with Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic

"...as well as a reflection of – and insight into – the people who make it. Los Angeles Times..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Demolition

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in dramedy as a man rebuilding his life

"...human emotions, and the lack thereof, stuffs its ideas into bullet-point metaphors, while forgetting that emotions are messy, unruly..."

April 8, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Embrace of the Serpent

Scientists and an Amazonian shaman interact in this unique film

"...This Colombian drama that travels into the heart of the Amazon is a highly original..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Divergent Series: Allegiant

The penultimate installment in this YA series arrives with a thud

"...the place setting, not the meal itself. Three films into the ongoing Divergent series, one would hope we’d moved..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Creative Control

This whip-smart comedy received Special Jury Recognition at SXSW 2015

"...Dickinson’s second feature is a whip-smart comedy that digs into the notion of how desire mixed with technology can..."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Gods of Egypt

We already have a strong contender for the worst film of 2016

"...Holy Isis and Osiris! Barely two months into the year and a strong contender for the worst..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Eddie the Eagle

The inspirational story of Great Britain's Olympics underdog

"...Here’s where the biopic verges into fantasy: Edwards finds himself a coach: the fictitious Bronson..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Risen

A Roman soldier is sent to track a rumor about the Christ's resurrection

"...telltale wounds. They come up short, but Clavius happens into a secret meeting of the disciples with a very..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

How to Be Single

This millennial romantic comedy wears that same old shaggy dress

"...relationship comedies Valentine’s Day and He’s Just Not That Into You, How to Be Single is, like those films,..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B

Be the most knowledgeable voter at your Oscar party

"...some extended running times, the nominees have been collated into two programs. Let's get started, shall we?..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Programs A & B

"...and uncle, only to be pressured by the community into forgiving the men. In Courtney Marsh's "Chau, Beyond the..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Dirty Grandpa

Robert De Niro and Zac Efron go on a raunchy road trip

"...in conjuring up what you might be getting yourself into should you stumble into a screening of Dirty Grandpa,..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Boy

Horrors: A nanny finds that her new charge is a life-sized doll

"...home use). And yet The Boy manages to creepy-crawl into your head and stick around considerably longer than expected,..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Finest Hours

Perfect effects and performances made this sea-rescue movie a dandy

"...along with three others, is sent from Chatham, Mass., into the freezing, hurling maw of the dead-of-night ocean in..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live From The New Yorker

Editor David Remnick on The New Yorker Radio Hour

"...hopes that humor is present in its new excursion into radio...."

Jan. 22, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Norm of the North

Animated bear protects his Arctic home

"...to recommend her daughter Olympia (Maya Kay) for acceptance into a prestigious private school. Instead of making his case,..."

Jan. 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Forest

Supernatural thriller is set in Japan's Aokigahara Forest

"...for her missing twin sister, Jess, who reputedly ventured into the preternaturally lush Aokigahara Forest near Mount Fuji, an..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Michael Bay lends his firepower to this war that's not really a war

"...Bay this: 13 Hours ratchets up the tension well into the nail-biting red zone, but the film doesn’t so..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Moonwalkers

A stoner comedy frames this moon-landing conspiracy-theory romp

"...inside job (probably not), or the CIA dumping narcotics into the ghetto to keep minorities in check (probably so),..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mustang

Five Turkish sisters fight the patriarchy in this widely hailed drama

"...are walls and bars on the house, turning it into a prison; while suggestive clothing, phones, and computers are..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

David Bowie’s Auto Memorial: Blackstar

Swan song LP admits “I Can’t Give Everything Away” but almost does

"...demise from cancer, David Bowie poured his restless creativity into the self-penned elegy. Two days later, Sunday, it proved..."

Jan. 12, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Point Break

Remake of 1991's action bromance

"...have demonstrated better storytelling capabilities when folding their stunts into feature films...."

Jan. 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Krampus

This horror-comedy brings a demon to the holiday gathering

"...riff on National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and then heads into Gremlins territory before it finally unleashes the titular Germanic..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Don Verdean

Fourth comedy feature from the pair who made Napoleon Dynamite

"...his endeavors as acts that help the deserving get into heaven. Sporting a bad wig and mush-mouthed Southern accent,..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spotlight

This terrific newspaper movie gets all the elements right

"...by the “Spotlight” investigative team of The Boston Globe into allegations of the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The 33

Antonio Banderas stars in this story about the trapped Chilean miners

"...a recent, true event that gripped the world’s attention into popcorn entertainment is almost tantamount to admitting defeat from..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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