Pedro Almodóvar. Tilda Swinton. Julianne Moore. Three names, three reasons to see a film—zero additional context needed. But if you insist… Best known for his work in Spanish (2019’s Pain […]
The End marks the narrative film directing debut from Oscar-nominated documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, whose one-two punch was 2012’s The Act of Killing and 2014’s The Look of Silence. The former […]
The charming, quirky and mostly very funny Problemista comes courtesy of former Saturday Night Live writer Julio Torres, who wrote, directed, and stars in this story of Alejandro, an aspiring […]
The professional assassin who stands at the center of director David Fincher’s latest, The Killer, is never given a name, and I’m guessing that’s exactly how the character (played to […]
You may not know the name Jeremy Thomas in the realm of movie-making, but you likely know the film he’s responsible for, primarily as a producer of works by the […]
Having recently revisited five other key works by writer/director Wes Anderson and having a clear memory of how I feel about the others I haven’t watched recently, it’s fair to […]
If you had told me earlier this year that I would see a film version of Pinocchio that featured a cameo by Mussolini, I probably would have guessed that filmmaker […]
Haunting and mysterious from the first frame, the latest from writer/director Joanna Hogg is the story of filmmaker Julie and her elderly mother Rosalind (both played quite distinctly by Tilda […]
Over the years, I’ve discovered that I have a soft spot for films about the magic powers that spoken-word storytelling can conjure, whether it’s simply a filmed performance of, for […]
The strange and often heartbreaking autobiographical journey of 2019’s The Souvenir continues with writer/director Joanna Hogg’s more empowering sequel The Souvenir Part II, which follows the filmmaker’s stand-in Julie (Honor […]
Filmmaker Wes Anderson, with 10 feature films to his name (his 11th is in production), has become such a known quantity that those keeping track of these things know relatively […]
The Chicago International Film Festival returns this week—like really, truly returns!—with dozens of films and events that once again highlight the best in international cinema, emerging talent and homemade productions, […]