Onlookers
Kimi Takesue’s entrancingly framed image-based documentary follows swarms of tourists in Laos.
Kimi Takesue’s entrancingly framed image-based documentary follows swarms of tourists in Laos.
A buoyant parable that manages to portray messy, complicated matters like democracy in a deft, light-to-the-touch, yet complex manner.
At first, the film conjures Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers as it revels in the shallow inanity of carousing drunk teens. But wait for its second half.
The elegant framing, the long takes, and the eclectic soundscapes almost induce a trancelike state.
Though the movie feels patterned after other survivalist sagas, its depiction of climate change is chilling and realistically captured.
A deeply felt tribute to an artist who has sometimes been misunderstood.
The behind-the-scenes making of CBS’s misguided and ill-fated two-hour variety show The Star Wars Holiday Special.
An intriguing, elegantly-crafted psychological portrait that is a hidden gem in the horror genre.