Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s visual style can be described in many ways—quiet, subtle, humanistic, etc.—but I think the best way to sum up her approach to storytelling is observational. Reichardt channels […]

In any other action movie, the emphasis on a revolutionary would be on his/her glory days of radical acts, like blowing up buildings, freeing political prisoners, etc. But in writer/director […]

Directed by Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride), Albert Brooks: Defending My Life is quite simply the best kind of celebrity biographical documentary […]

I was too young in the early to mid-1970s to have any real appreciation or nostalgia for the era today; and I grew up on the east coast, nowhere near […]