The three films in question were given to us by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, and Paul Schrader. The first two ...

The Amateur is strange, because it presents itself as a revenge thriller and a man dealing with grief, but there's a lot more ...

What Is The Amateur About? The Amateur is strange, because it presents itself as a revenge thriller and a man dealing with ...

If you ask me, they just don’t make comedies like they used to. At the very least, the art of the ensemble comedy has practically been lost. Back in the 1930s and 1940s, screwball comedies were an ...

This is a live list where I rank the movies of 2025. If something isn’t on the list, I haven’t seen it. Leave your comments and we’ll talk. The movies within a category are in alphabetical order. I ...

Melancholia has two layers. One is more obvious and familiar and shouldn’t surprise you in any way. The other is a bit more abstract and you’ll have to bear with me. The good news is, you’ll come away ...

A revolution begins with an idea. And over the course of time, as people have fought against tyranny, cinema has given those ideas a body—a moving, breathing, choreographed rhythm that condenses an ...

Typically, I like to walk people through the thematic meaning and machinations of a movie then use evidence from the filmmaker to help confirm my interpretation. But, for Sorcerer, I thought it would ...

Death of a Unicorn conveys its major theme in the opening seconds of the film. Ridley, stuck on the plane and tired, leans her head on her father’s shoulder. He’s excited but also taken aback and ...