Sunday, March 27, 2016
Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite is a wonderful study of delusion and illusion, the deceptive power of love and faith.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:50AMSunday, March 13, 2016
Embrace of the Serpent presents a world where nature and dreams provide the most satisfying answers; logic and science are besides the elemental point.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:15PMFriday, March 11, 2016
I admire director Terrence Malick for continuing to jettison staid storytelling for the sake of exploring his dense moral vision.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:50PMThursday, March 3, 2016
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on Kim Barker’s account of her experience as a journalist and single woman in Afghanistan.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:54PMSaturday, February 27, 2016
The movie plays all sides equally, providing no answers, no favorites, no villains, no heroes. Everybody’s motives and ethics are in question.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:26AMThursday, February 11, 2016
The lightheartedness of the writing and Moore’s unkempt look are jarring, but the film effectively delivers lessons about progressive policies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:12PMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:45PMWednesday, December 23, 2015
The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino’s nimbly textured love letter to B movies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:11PMFriday, December 11, 2015
Ruminations on age and memory are inevitably sunk deep into the flesh and the glue of personal relationships.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Brooklyn's script neatly consolidates the novel's trials and tribulations without becoming too saccharine.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:08PMAlice Rohrwacher's film, which won the Grand Prix at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, is a rarity -- it is genuinely magical.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Sara Silverman throws herself into depicting Laney’s mental illness and out-of-control life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:22PMMonday, September 28, 2015
The actors draw you in, so there is no need for extraneous exposition as the film carefully examines the ironies of the Brazilian class system.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:00AMSaturday, September 19, 2015
When they watch Black Mass what are Bostonians seeing? A strange blend of reality and mythology.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:31AMThursday, August 27, 2015
"An Annie Baker pause is about the people themselves, beating themselves up, figuring out what to say next.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AMSaturday, August 15, 2015
Ricki and the Flash is a film that is bad enough to hurt a lot of reputations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMSunday, August 9, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker's John is a haunting feminist drama about women and madness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:37PMThursday, July 30, 2015
The entertaining and inspiring Jimmy's Hall is more playful than some of director Ken Loach's previous, more radical-leaning efforts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:10PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
A quartet of summer films that range from the excellent to the not-so-bad and the ugly.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:19PMThursday, June 25, 2015
Reviews of four strong independent films that may -- or may not -- be coming to a screen near you.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:49AMFriday, June 19, 2015
The impish comedy and refreshingly realistic perspective of Dope questions easy answers to pressing racial problems.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMThursday, June 11, 2015
The Safdie brothers are willing to look at hard truths, creating a movie that retains the immediacy and the tragedy of addiction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AMSunday, May 24, 2015
Making Archie's Betty compelled Gerald Peary to confront his inner Archie: “The more I made this movie, the more personal it got.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:13PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
The revolution may be televised, but it is also going to be packaged and sold back to us.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:58PMFriday, May 8, 2015
It is Kristin Wiig's committed performance, along with director Shira Piven's skill at comic timing, that grounds the satiric comedy's absurd premise.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMSaturday, May 2, 2015
Lambert & Stamp will resonate with musicians who have experienced the volatile give-and-take that is needed to sustain and nurture a rock and roll band.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:01PMSaturday, April 18, 2015
"We’ve let too many valuable creative people leave for Brooklyn, Austin, and Portland. We need to do something about that."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
The puckish, irrepressible personality of James Randi -- magician, escape artist, debunker of seers, psychics, and all things paranormal -- is at the zesty heart of this memorable documentar…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:49PMMonday, March 9, 2015
The late Albert Maysles once said: “I don't see, frankly, trying to make a film to create better understanding. Our motivations for making films aren't intellectual ones.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:11PMFriday, March 6, 2015
Director and writer Damián Szifrón fills his tales with lethal ironies and jarring twists of fate that build with relentless momentum to resolutions that somehow manage to be both horrid a…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06PMThursday, March 5, 2015
Underground director Emile de Antonio saw films as “a way to make art out of political raw material.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:33PM 
