Oh, this is not good. But here’s the thing: once in a great while, I see something so bad that I want everyone else to see it to, just so […]

Although I am not of a mind that director Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 opus Showgirls is anything but watchable trash, there are many who believe it is a masterpiece—or at least […]

In his first feature since 2014’s controversial Pasolini, writer/director Abel Ferrara (Ms .45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) re-emerges with Tommaso, a work that is part biography, part fantasy, […]

Too often in documentaries about artists, the focus rest heavily on the final product, and that’s often the case because the subject is deceased. But in director Daniel Traub’s deeply […]

Long have I been an admirer of Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald (Roadkill, Pontypool), who frequently takes his genre work into more surreal territory that sometimes threatens to/delights in dipping its […]

If it weren’t so cartoonishly violent, you might almost be able to take a thriller with the unlikely name of Becky seriously. Of course, the fact that nearly all of […]

Three years ago, the great French filmmaker Bruno Dumont (Twentynine Palms, L’Humanité) did something even more radical than usual: he adapted and directed a portion of a cycle of plays […]

The Vast of Night is the kind of genre film that makes sifting through piles of average movies worth it. From first-time director Andrew Patterson and co-writers James Montague and […]

One of the things I admired about director Nisha Ganatra’s previous film, Late Night, was that some of its insights into the way male-dominated late night talk shows operated behind […]

In recent years, the lines that previously separated stand-up comedy, improv, performance art, and more traditional one-person showcases have blurred to the point where they seem meaningless (and perhaps even […]

Based on real events, Mr. Jones is a pre-World War II drama that centers on some of the events that led (or perhaps misled) to paving the way for Hitler […]

There are times when a clever film is a bit too clever for its own good. That doesn’t mean it isn’t still fun—the kind of fun that stems from on […]