Killer’s Kiss is an example par excellence of a remarkably gifted filmmaker—in this case Stanley Kubrick—forced early in his career to make the most of a film with very limited…
Edited/revamped 3/23 I’m not sure if there’s a way to say anything substantial about Duplicity without giving away a lot of its story, which one really shouldn’t know before watching…
Hitch may or may not be any good, but watching a movie like this on your honeymoon guarantees it a certain thumbs-up status (he said shamelessly).
Apparently the time of cholera was a simpler time, a time in which men only had the brains to think of one thing through the duration of their lives and…
A film like Freaks has so much baggage that one needs some kind of method by which to discuss it, or at least a framework. The ethical questions answer themselves,…
Perhaps it is simply a lesser-known sub-genre of film noir, but the American immigrant setting of Jules Dassin’ Thieves’ Highway seemed quite unusual for a film of this type. One…
Sleeper is a silly, smart, and enjoyable film. Its embrace of classic American silent comedy through ceaseless sight gags works remarkably well, with Woody Allen maximizing his minimalistic physical stature…
Harmony Korine stated somewhere that the characters from his film Gummo, he found, were “transcendentally beautiful.” It is unclear just what the so-called “beauty” of the characters transcends. Korine has…
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind probably takes the cake as the best Valentine’s Day movie ever. After a thorough scouring of our (ever-growing) shelf, it became clear how few…
