Film Review: "Marriage Story" " A Divorce From Hell
What makes Marriage Story unbalanced and faintly dishonest is that we end up rooting for the clueless male egomaniac. The post Film Review: "Marriage Story" " A Divorce From Hell appeared fi…
What makes Marriage Story unbalanced and faintly dishonest is that we end up rooting for the clueless male egomaniac. The post Film Review: "Marriage Story" " A Divorce From Hell appeared fi…
Portrait is a masterly work of historical realism -- about an enduring love between two women -- done in high-flying poetic style. The post Film Review: "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" " "A Lo…
The Lighthouse generates dark humor from the madness of toxic males gone rogue -- wired to dominate, even as they self-destruct. The post Film Review: "The Lighthouse" " "Nothing Good Happe…
What remains so seductive about Almodovar is the way he replicates the movement of thought, creating a seamless weave between the story moving forward -- rather minimal in this case -- and t…
Three remarkable films that promise a bumper crop of world cinema yet to come at the NY Film Festival. The post Film Review: Rude, Crude, and Enchanting, This Year's New York Film Festival i…
After the Wedding never finds its emotional rhythm; melodramatic confrontations about betrayals and past choices lurch clunkily along. The post Film Review: "After the Wedding" " An America…
For all its bite, Fall is oddly endearing, too, leavening its harsh portrait of money-madness with aw-shucks moments of solidarity and kindness. The post Film Review: "The Fall of the Americ…
The White Crow, wisely, offers up no easy answers regarding why Rudolf Nureyev defected. The post Film Review: "The White Crow" " God's Acrobat appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
What elevates these ordinary lives is director Kent Jones's elegiac distance; the narrative has the feel of a memory piece. The post Film Review: "Diane" " Heroine of a Different Stripe appe…