It’s startling to hear Kurt Cobain speak in “About a Son,” a pseudo-documentary about the late rock star that blends cinematography inspired by his life with interview recordings taken about […]
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In “King of California,” a self-reliant teenager (Evan Rachel Wood) holds down the family mortgage without need of parental oversight until her dope-smoking, jazz-playing, free-spirited father (Michael Douglas) shows up […]
Though “the bus” is now a catch-all phrase for a cinematic fake-out, originally it referred to an actual bus. In Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 film “Cat People,” a bus roars and […]
It might sound odd to hear that “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” is not a Western. It’s a movie set in the American West, about […]
The breakthrough success of movies such as “Juno” inspires a legion of titles trying to capture the same fervor. For every “Juno” there are dozens of indie wannabes, struggling every […]
I wish director Raoul Ruiz had cut the ends off his movie about the painter Gustav Klimt. It wants desperately not to be a typical biopic, yet it cannot resist […]
You may wonder why a mainstream movie with such name actors as Mark Ruffalo and as big a star as Joaquin Phoenix never made it to a theater near you. […]
It seems that Oprah’s book club doesn’t bring old books back to just the best-seller lists. Her touch may be inspiring the rerelease of the books’ film adaptations as well. […]
There was no movie of 2007 more overvalued than “3:10 to Yuma,” a carelessly made Western starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale that somehow received acclaim in a year of […]
Even by the end of “The Hottest State,” I wasn’t sure if Ethan Hawke was an insane genius, or just insane. Hawke wrote and directed this New York-set romantic drama […]
“Deep Water” doesn’t feel like a documentary. Combining archival footage, journals and interviews, the film recounts the strange story of the first Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, an open competition […]
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