Thursday, March 20, 2025
Sex, lie detectors, and national security: in Steven Soderbergh’s latest, the intrigue of espionage is matched by the mysteries of marriage.
Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse in Blac…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 13, 2025
Humor and humiliation, violence and vulnerability: the chaos of thwarted eros knows no bounds in Alain Guiraudie’s latest.
Félix Kysyl as Jérémie and Jean-Baptiste Durand as Vincent in…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, February 27, 2025
For the man from nowhere, leaving is best: a young Parisian sojourns to Tunisia, where he was born, and finds few answers in Guy Gilles’s beguiling 1970 film.
Patrick Jouané as Pierre in…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, February 20, 2025
In 1900s and 1990s Chicago, parallel romances play out between two Black Chicagoans, one Deaf and one hearing.
John Earl Jelks as Arthur Jones and Michelle A. Banks as Malindy Brown in Comp…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 23, 2025
Domestic misery loves spectral company in
Steven Soderbergh’s new thriller.
Callina Liang as Chloe in Presence. Courtesy Neon.
Presence, directed by Steven Soderbergh,
now in theaters
…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 16, 2025
To go gentle—and not so gentle—into that good night: two emotionally explosive films by Michael Roemer present unsparing
portrayals of illness and death.
Reverend Bryant in Dying. Cour…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 19, 2024
Oblique horrors and unsettling vulnerabilities abound in Joshua Oppenheimer’s musical film about a wealthy family living in a luxurious bunker during climate apocalypse.
Tim McInnerny as …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 5, 2024
Misery’s company: Mike Leigh’s engrossing new film is a brilliant study of two diametrically opposed sisters.
Ani Nelson as Kayla, Michele Austin as Chantelle, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 21, 2024
In his latest film, Luca Guadagnino presents a sanitized adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s 1985 novel.
Daniel Craig as William Lee in Queer. Courtesy A24. Photo: Yannis Drakoulidis.
Q…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 14, 2024
Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman’s 1984 Frances Farmer biopic gives the actress, who struggled with mental health and involuntary institutionalization, room to breathe.
Sheila McLaughl…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 17, 2024
In Sean Baker’s latest film, a young exotic dancer from Brighton Beach embarks on a freewheeling odyssey after meeting—and marrying—a Russian party-boy oligarch.
Mikey Madison as Ani …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 10, 2024
. . . and love stops, and sustains, and continues in fits and starts, in John Cassavetes’s 1984 comedy-drama starring the director-actor
and Gena Rowlands.
John Cassavetes as Robert Harm…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Coralie Fargeat’s new body-horror film starring Demi Moore is short on hits, long on misses . . . and focused on bobbing butts.
Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance. Court…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 5, 2024
Deep cuts from the artist’s filmography serve up a riveting showcase of scene-stealing freaks and oddballs.
Andy Warhol, Batman Dracula (unfinished), 1964 (still). Pictured: Jack…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 27, 2024
Passion and pretense: Catherine Breillat’s latest film presents a complex portrait of a woman divided against herself.
Samuel Kircher as Théo and Léa Drucker as Anne in …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 6, 2024
In a film by Richard Linklater loosely based on a true story, a philosophy professor finds his calling as a fake professional
killer for police stings.
Glen Powell as Gary Johnson in Hit M…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 30, 2024
Earnest pleasures remain lushly undiminished in Francis Ford Coppola’s new Reprise of the 1982 film starring Teri Garr.
Teri Garr as Frannie in One from the Heart. Courtesy Rialto Picture…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 23, 2024
The actress who brought an enigmatic expressiveness to Jacques Rivette’s ’70s and ’80s films about female friendships and alliances.
Bulle Ogier as Pauline/Émilie in Out 1. Courtesy …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, April 11, 2024
A strikingly incompatible Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon star in Jack Cardiff’s fascinating and bizarre biker film from 1968.
Marianne Faithfull as Rebecca in The Girl on a Motorcycle…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, April 4, 2024
Back to the fear of the future: in Bertrand Bonello’s time-skipping film, the tragedies of love and fate can never be left behind.
George MacKay as Louis Lewanski and Léa Seydoux as Gabr…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Roid-raging against the machine: lez lovers embark on a path of vengeance in Rose Glass’s second film.
Katy O’Brian as Jackie and Kristen Stewart as Lou in Love Lies Bleeding. C…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, February 29, 2024
A young Salvadoran immigrant in New York City navigates cryogenics, art-world shenanigans, and challenges both real and surreal in Julio Torres’s debut feature film.
Julio Torres as A…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, February 15, 2024
Liberté, égalité, gastronomie: Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel star in Trân Anh Hùng’s latest film.
Juliette Binoche as Eugénie and …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, February 1, 2024
For those who come to San Francisco . . . David Schickele’s docufiction portrayal of a young Nigerian, a city, and an epoch.
Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as A…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 18, 2024
Of family and fauna: a young protagonist at the center of Lila Avilés’s latest film navigates a day of domestic chaos and festivities.
Naíma Sentíes as Sol in Tótem. Courtesy Film For…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 11, 2024
In Chantal Akerman’s newly restored 1982 film, lovers unite and separate over the course of one summer night in a series of mysterious vignettes.
Still from Toute une nuit. Courtesy Colle…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 14, 2023
In Andrew Haigh’s latest film, close encounters of the
metaphysical—and X-rated—kind.
Andrew Scott as Adam and Paul Mescal as Harry in All of Us Strangers. Courtesy Searchlight Pictu…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 7, 2023
Habeas coitus: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film about a Frankensteinian
lady-baby misses its feminist mark.
Emma Stone as Bella Baxter and and Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn in Poor Things…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 16, 2023
Bradley Cooper conducts a moving new Leonard Bernstein biopic.
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro. Courtesy Netflix. Photo: Jason McDonald.
Maestro, directed by Bradley Cooper,…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 9, 2023
Moleskine Notes on a Scandal: in the latest film by Todd Haynes, one woman’s past is another woman’s future.
Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry and Julianne Moore as Gracie Atherton-Yoo…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 26, 2023
If Graceland’s walls could talk: Sofia Coppola’s new biopic
reveals little of the King’s queen.
Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla in Priscilla. Courtesy A24. Photo: Sabrina Lantos.
Priscil…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM 
