A grapefruit is never dull; on the contrary, it’s often the center of attention. Read More
Yet, what if the bomb was buried and detonated over a mile beneath the earth, thirty miles from your family's home, two and half months before your birth? Read More
White feels like the afterimage of a comedy, a funny movie whose characters seem to fall through its sheer absence of jokes, into ambiguous and oblique gaps. Read More
A Very Long Engagement is a fable about grief and young love. Read More
Coded into our inflections and pronunciations are our experiences of race, gender, class—life. Read More
Charles Bramesco attends TIFF. Read More
Desperately Seeking Susan is a movie about iconography as a narrative strategy, as a cinematic device, as the foundation of an artistic career. Read More
"Don’t mind the cameras till you to talk to them." Read More
To categorize A Zed and Two Noughts as any kind of meditation on grief would be to discount the way that Greenaway holds his characters at a physical and emotional remove Read More
In Knick, the body is mystery meat. Squelching and sticky, it has a reality that repels abstraction and houses a dark disorder that wrecks any pretensions to mastery. Read More
We’ve got a wonderful grab bag of cinematic ephemera for you this month. Read More
Each scene in The Holy Mountain was staged as symbol in and of itself—and they came at me in a ceaseless barrage. Read More