My Son
At least for the first half-hour or so, My Son works as an intimate familiar drama underlined by a mystery.
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Little Woods
Little Woods has so many things to say about contemporary American life that it almost feels like two or three movies.
Satan & Adam
The story of the odd duo of Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow looks like the kind of source material that could inspire a sweetened Hollywood movie.
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Mark Cousins's inspires you to take a second look at Welles’s films and admire a legacy that goes beyond Citizen Kane.
Babylon
It wasn’t what the movie depicted but what it said about class conflicts, racism, and normalized xenophobia in Thatcher’s Britain that caused this film to be sidelined.
Holiday
You may disagree with the filmmaker’s extreme artistic decisions, but they were made to provoke instant revulsion.
The Wild Pear Tree
In a new movie full of conversations more than action, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan holds your attention scene by scene.
Crime+Punishment
A valuable documentary about the illegal practice of arrest quotas by the New York Police Department.