Tag: U.S. Indie Film Review
Eephus | Review
Diamonds Are Not Forever: Lund Looks Beyond America's Favorite Pastime
Even with a full count of three balls and two strikes, it may seem...
Blue Moon | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing: Linklater Pays Homage to a Broken Hart
Lorenz Hart was a lonely hunter. If you believe you haven’t heard of...
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
You’ll Like My Mother: Bronstein Lets Us Feel the Byrne
Motherhood approaches the verge of the horrific in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,...
Nosferatu (2024) | Review
Basic Instincts: Eggers Taps Into the Bloodlust with Vampy Remake
It would seem there’s no one more fitting than Robert Eggers to mount a remake...
Babygirl | Review
Fuck Like No One’s Watching: Reijn Delivers Prudent & Provocative Sexual Odyssey
“There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had...
Nickel Boys | Review
No Country for Black Men: Ross Reforms the Cinema with Distinctive Adaptation
In many ways, Nickel Boys, the narrative debut from director RaMell Ross,...
Taste The Revolution | 2024 Red Sea Intl. Film Festival Review
Revolution Summer: Klein Unearths A Political Satire Over 20 Years In The Making
Making a movie is all about timing. If you’re lucky, you get...
Oh, Canada | Review
Pieces of a Man: Schrader Explores Atonement in Toned Down Adaptation
Throughout his illustrious career as a director and screenwriter, Paul Schrader has specialized in...
Nightbitch | Review
All About My Mother: Amy Adams Goes to the Dogs In Marielle Heller’s Barking Mad Dramedy
“Motherhood is fucking brutal,” Amy Adams’ unnamed Mother seethes...
Anora | Review
Fools Russia In: Baker’s Bangin’ Screwball Comedy
At this point in his career, filmmaker Sean Baker seems to have covered all the major facets of...
Megalopolis | Review
Atlas Farted: Coppola’s Labor of Love a Lackluster Saga
While he’s one of the greatest film directors of all time, mostly thanks to a handful...
A Different Man | Review
The Face of Another: Schimberg Scrutinizes the Pratfalls of Face Value
Those familiar with his 2018 sophomore film Chained for Life will likely notate director...
No Sleep Till | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Eye of the Norm: Simpson Looks at Coastal Coasting with Minimalist, Passive POV
There is a new breed of emerging American indie filmmakers who are...
MaXXXine | Review
A Touch of Minx: West Concludes Ersatz ‘Trilogy’ with a Moan
It’s an impressive endeavor to unleash three consecutive, thematically related films within the span...
Kinds of Kindness | Review
Bounds of Boundaries: Lanthimos Entertains Himself with Bizarre Triptych
It’s safe to say Yorgos Lanthimos has undoubtedly entered the oblivious, self-indulgent era of his career...
Thelma | Review
Grandma Scamma: Margolin Steals a Win with Squibb
Although there’s a prodigious sub-genre of kooky comedies featuring elderly resilient women (though more often in European...
Maestro | Review
The Music Man: Coopers Conducts Intimate Portrait of Leonard Bernstein
For his sophomore directorial effort, Bradley Cooper maneuvers once again with music in Maestro, an...
May December | Review
Tarnished Angels: Haynes Curates a New Dazzling Cult Classic
Had Brian De Palma been keen on rehashing Douglas Sirk instead of Hitchcock, he might have...
Manodrome | Review
Wrecked Ralph: Trengove Gazes into the Weaponization of Masculinity in Unsettling Character Study
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler commented on a 2017 panel regarding how...
The Killer | Review
Assassin’s Creed: Fincher Sculpts More Murder Into Art
There’s simply no room for error in some professions, chief among them the business of expert assassins,...
Priscilla | Review
La Belle Captive: Coppola Pays Homage to America’s Archetypal Child-Bride
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley published her memoir Elvis & Me in 1985, which spawned a 1988...
Fingernails | Review
Science Can’t Contain True Love In Nikou’s Charming & Romantic English Language Debut
Big Data and artificial intelligence are already reshaping how we think about...
She Came to Me | Review
Guilty of Romance: Miller Weaves a Wacky and Disarmingly Charming Love Tapestry
To those who think the possibilities of heartfelt romantic comedies dried up in...
The Beanie Bubble [Video Review]
Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Karen Lunder
Executive Producers: Zach Galifianakis, Douglas S. Jones
Directors: Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash, Jr.
Writer: Kristin Gore.
Director of Photography: Steven...
Asteroid City | Review
The Lost City of Twee: Anderson Continues Quest of Counterfeit Sentiments
Somewhere along the way, over the past twenty years, Wes Anderson’s style completely...
Past Lives | Review
Tell Me That You Love Me, Nora Moon: Song Explores Destiny and Longing in Potent Debut
Romance cut short before it reaches full bloom is...
Master Gardener | Review
That Shall He Also Reap: Schrader Sows the Seeds of Fate with Metaphorical Blossoms
The seeds of hate are sown the same as seeds of...
Somewhere in Queens | Review
Sticks and Stones: Romano’s Lovable Directorial Debut
Ray Romano’s first foray into acting-directing, Somewhere in Queens, is an uproarious family drama more akin to Little...
Showing Up | Review
Bird is the Word: Reichardt Returns with Warm Portrait of Art and Ennui
To some it may seem too slight and to others just right,...
When You Finish Saving the World | Review
A Tube with a View: Eisenberg Debuts Gentle Narrative on Misplaced Intentions
‘Familiarity breeds contempt,’ could have been the tagline for Jesse Eisenberg’s lovely, low-key...
Women Talking | Review
Polley's Fierce and Tender Adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel is a Stirring Exploration of Faith, Love & Survival
There may not be a word in...
The Whale | Review
Charlie and the Tragedy Factory: Aronofsky Returns with Potent Chamber-piece on Despair and Redemption
Obesity is far from the only morbid element marinating the bleak...
White Noise | Review
Death Wishes: Baumbach Dons DeLillo’s Satirical Death March
The characters anchoring the existential narrative of White Noise have kindly stopped for death, so consumed with...
Bones and All | Review
All the Fine Young Cannibals: Guadagnino Crafts Grisly, Devouring Love Story
“It’s amazing what you can do with a cheap piece of meat if you...
Call Jane | Review
It Could Happen To You: Nagy Recuperates the Resiliency of Women in Sophisticated Melodrama
Camille Paglia, with her signature dramatic panache, might be among those...
Armageddon Time | Review
A Great White Hype: Gray Explores the Farce of the American Dream in Coming of Age Portrait
Where are we going? Where have we been?...
Tár | Review
Notes on a Scandal: Blanchett Swallows Berlin in Exceptional Psychological Drama from Field
It’s been sixteen years since Todd Field’s last film, the arduous Academy...
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon | Review
The Moon in the Gutter: Amirpour Shoots for the Moon and Misses
For her third directorial outing, Ana Lily Amirpour remains fascinated with B-movie grunge...
The Good House | Review
Days of Wine & Mortgage: Weaver Soars in Drama on Denial & Redemption
“It always begins with denial,” Hildy Good announces in the opening frames...
Blonde | Review
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl: Dominik Explores Our Assassination of Iconicity
There’s no human who’s quite bedazzled the zeitgeist like Marilyn Monroe, the most...
Runner | 2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Making Room: Mathias Unfolds The Fleeting Moments of a Relationship in Elegant Debut
Amidst the unsparing and barren landscape of a Midwestern winter, delicate tendrils...
The Listener | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Phone Call from a Stranger: Buscemi Conducts a Conduit of Trauma in Striking One-Woman Show
Conjuring everything from Jean Cocteau to T.S. Eliot, Steve Buscemi...
Funny Pages | Review
Drawn That Way: Kline Makes a Mark with Singular Coming-of-Age Comedy
The emphasis of form vs. soul is the riddle at the crux of Funny...
Summering | Review
The Spectacular Now & Then: Ponsoldt Taps Summertime Sadness in Coming-of-Age Drama
The dog days of summer aren’t over for a quartet of young girls...
Bodies Bodies Bodies | Review
On Body and Storm: Reijn Uncovers a Snake Pit of Wealthy Frenemies in Social Satire
It’s Agatha Christie spliced with the frivolous escapism of social...
I Love My Dad | Review
Sons & Lovers: Morosini Aims for Awkward in Dysfunctional Familial Dilemma
Overbearing and stifling parents have long been a staple of semi-autobiographical storytelling, but director...
Resurrection | Review
The Killing Kindness: Semans Explores Love as a Deadly Splendored Thing in Exceptional Psychodrama
“You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You,” a popular 1940s tune made...
Gone in the Night | Review
Rental Condition: Horowitz Navigates Eerie Scenario in Patchwork Psych Thriller
Gwen Guthrie famously crooned, “Ain’t nothin’ goin on but the rent,” back in 1986, but...
Down with the King | Review
King Without a Crown: Ongaro Crafts a Rap Trap in Portrait of Creative Crisis
Fifteen years ago, Jay-Z defiantly declared “Thirty’s the new twenty” in...
Beauty | Review
It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay: Dosunmu Finds Fame is a Heartbreak Hotel in Familiar Melodrama
Destined to be the oddest entry in Andrew Dosunmu’s...
