San Sebastian Film Review: ‘Pretenders’
A lithe little psychological puzzler in which lives are stolen, swapped and quite possibly ruined in the space of one ostensibly tranquil weekend.
Reviews
Film Review: ‘Closet Monster’
The risk-taking confidence with which Dunn weaves in sardonic magical-realist elements, not to mention the film's unpredictable yet assured approaches to style and tone, make for an auspicious debut.
Film Review: ‘I.T.’
Appropriately enough for a movie titled "I.T.," there is a preponderance of hard drives, software, satellite tracking networks, cutting-edge surveillance systems, and banks of large-format monitors…
TV Review: Netflix’s ‘Easy’
From writer, director, and executive producer Joe Swanberg comes “Easy,” Netflix's latest original series. “Easy” is an eight-episode collection of vignettes depicting sexual or romantic…
London Theater Review: ‘Good Canary,’ Directed by John Malkovich
"Good Canary" is a very good film. Trouble is, it's on stage. Directed for the third time by John Malkovich, after productions in French and Spanish, Zach Helm's boulevard tragicomedy is a firm…
L.A. Opera Review: ‘Macbeth’ Starring Placido Domingo
Most opera singers tend to wind down or retire by the time they reach their late 50s or early 60s. But at 75, Placido Domingo shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. He sings the title role in…
Toronto Film Review: ‘Rage’
An astute mixture of multi-strand drama and murder mystery that engrosses for two solid hours--before collapsing into bathos.
Film Review: ‘Rats’
If you were among the squeamish who could never quite stomach the premise of Pixar's "Ratatouille" — in which a Parisian sewer rat becomes top chef in a tony French restaurant — then perhaps Morgan…
Film Review: ‘Colossal’
But if the writer-director's physical canvas has gotten bigger here, his imagination is otherwise in somewhat reduced form. "
Toronto Film Review: ‘The Long Excuse’
In “The Long Excuse,” Masahiro Motoki — star of the Oscar-winning “Departures” — makes a startling comeback as a novelist who discovers his coldheartedness upon his wife’s sudden death…
Toronto Film Review: ‘Afterimage’
This respectable if somewhat monotonous drama won't be an easy sell to offshore audiences for whom avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski is hardly a household name.
