THE AMERICAN MEME
Bert Marcus’s third documentary gives a brief window into the potentially self-destructive effects of social media celebrity culture as indivertibly…
THREE STARS
GREEN BOOK
“Green Book” excels as a white/black bromance crafted to fit release at the start of the holiday season. Not every…
OPHELIA
Although hindered by a lack of variety in its pacing, this fragrant imagining of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” as lived through the…
LET THE CORPSES TAN
The narrative is appropriately thin in this wildly inspired homage to European crime action movie tropes of the ’70 (think…
ROCK RUBBER 45s
Few are the number of people who could make a documentary about themselves that would be as entertaining as “Rock…
ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE
“Always At The Carlyle” gives you a sense of old New York’s glamour and decadence. The movie is as much…
CHIEF ZABU
“Chief Zabu” is a fascinating cult comedy for an odd collection of reasons, not the least of which is the…
THEY ALL LAUGHED
Peter Bogdanovich’s underseen romantic comedy is an unabashed love letter to 1980 Manhattan. Storyline and plot take a welcome backseat…
GAME NIGHT
“Game Night” is a dark, not black, comedy that taps into modern American fears regarding guns, imposters, and sudden violence.…
THE DEATH OF STALIN
“The Death of Stalin” plays lighter than its subject matter projects. While another trip through the editing process could have…
EX LIBRIS: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
At three hours and 17 minutes, “Ex Libris” could easily have lost more than an hour and maintained its vast…
GOING PLACES
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Although inscrutable to any mainstream reading, “Going Places” succeeds due to the film’s refusal to provide easy answers for its…
MOLLY’S GAME
Sorkin uses tightly composed scenes, packed with lean dialogue, to form volatile sequences that unite exposition with motivation and panache.…
JANE
Documentarian Brett Morgan (“The Kid Stays In The Picture”) utilizes roughly 100 hours of previously-believed lost footage (taken by Jane…
JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD — NYFF 55
At 82, the waifish Joan Didion expresses herself with dramatic hand gestures that emphasize her thoughts and ideas with indelible…
ARTHUR
This long forgotten romantic comedy represents a perfect storm of comic talents coming together for an enjoyable Manhattan-centric movie that…
RUDE BOY
However fraught with controversy, “Rude Boy” is a priceless document of one of the greatest Punk bands in history. This…
OKJA — CANNES 2017
Bong Joon Ho’s family-friendly political satire could well be the most important film of 2017. Without addressing this film’s canny…
PUNCH DRUNK LOVE — THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Paul Thomas Anderson has done the impossible; he has written a romantic leading role for Adam Sandler that functions well…
GET OUT
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut isn’t as much a horror movie as it is a scathing social satire. The film is…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
