Meanwhile, Amy’s longtime friend Kim (Joyce Ha)—a big success in life, or so it seems—has brought along her boyfriend Jay (Sam Straley). The three knew each other in high school. Amy always had a bit of a thing for Jay, and we can tell from every interaction between them that Read more…
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Gold Hugo: “The Echo” (Mexico, Germany), Dir. Tatiana Huezo Tatiana Huezo presents an engrossingly cinematic and poetic portrait of modern family life in rural Mexico. Huezo’s nuanced, observational storytelling weaves a rich tapestry of a family and community who live off the land in a mountainous terrain, herding sheep. Read more…
Written and directed by Lucy Kerr, “Family Portrait” takes place on a sprawling estate in Texas as a large family attempts to take their annual group photo for their holiday card. Kerr sets the mood with a lingering, almost silent pan as the family gathers in a field during a Read more…
“The Pigeon Tunnel” is both the title of Cornwell’s memoir The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life and the working title he used for most of his books. It refers to a place the young Cornwell would visit with his conman father Ronnie in France, where rich men would shoot Read more…
Yates teases: He opens his film on a staged black and white documentary, as a brash Pete Brenner (Chris Evans) explains his shock and disappointment that Liza would betray him. She begins as a mystery woman, an unlikely mother with a GED education who brought down an empire. When Yates Read more…
Clearly inspired by ’80s horror films and horror-comedies like “Gremlins” or “Fright Night,” “Onyx the Fortuitous” starts in a “Breakfast Club” way, with five people, misfits all, showing up at the gloomy mansion of their shared idol, famous occultist Bartok the Great (Jeffrey Combs). They’ve all won an online contest Read more…
The Appendix is a masterstroke in how it honors what Gene and Roger did in passionately championing work that they believed in. I was especially happy to see Nancy Savoca’s “Household Saints” on there, which I struggled to find online after watching its rave review on “Siskel & Ebert” [you Read more…
Of course, some will question why we’re watching an amoral monster try to save himself, and it’s worth noting that Fincher and Walker don’t shy away from this. I kept expecting “The Killer” to try and soften its leading man, but there’s no escaping that he is a cold-blooded murderer. When he Read more…
A California girl through and through, Somers revealed in the ‘90s that she was the child of an abusive alcoholic, someone who was so violent that the future actress was a bed-wetter until she was 12 and the victim of a violent attack on Prom night. She escaped that home Read more…
Rodrigo Moreno’s “The Delinquents” plays like a philosophical experiment. Morán (Daniel Eliás) steals just enough for a modest retirement and enlists Román (Esteban Bigliardi) to hide the money while he serves his prison sentence. Then, when he’s out, both men can live happily ever after outside the social constraints that Read more…