Tramontane
Festival award-winner Tramontane skims the surface of Lebanese history but can’t quite balance personal drama with political allegory.
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Blade Runner 2049
Like its predecessor, “Blade Runner 2049” is a stylistic triumph that offers less than meets the eye. Matt Levine reviews the much-touted sequel.
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Loving Vincent
Loving Vincent offers stunning animation but little more in its reverent treatment of Vincent van Gogh.
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Independent I: An Interview With Anam Abbas
We talked to Anam Abbas about her upcoming film ‘Showgirls of Pakistan’, a documentary feature on the lives of dancing girls in Punjab, Pakistan.
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Super Bad: The Dubious Tendencies of Judd Apatow
Guest contributor Tristan Marajh questions whether Judd Apatow can be regarded as among the smartest or most compassionate people in Hollywood.
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Private Theatre: Video Diary of a Lost Girl
Film critic Chuck Williamson writes on Lindsay Denniberg’s ‘Video Diary of a Lost Girl’, a film “invested in reconfiguring rape culture paradigms”.
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Reinventing the Reel: Foxcatcher
Film critic Michael Dodd writes on Bennett Miller’s ‘Foxcatcher’, the most unexpected omission from the Academy’s Best Picture nominations.
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Reinventing the Reel: Birdman
Michael Dodd writes on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’, “a wry look at modern celebrity and the struggle to keep up with an ever-changing digital and fame-obsessed world”.
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Reinventing the Reel: Inherent Vice
Film critic Ben Hynes on Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, a hazy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’.
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Private Theatre: Gone Girl
Contributing editor Christine Jin writes on David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’, last year’s most hotly debated film.
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