The Ecstasy of Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’ (NYFF58)
“How are they still awake?” I asked as I came to the end of Steve McQueen’s sumptuous and confounding Lovers Rock, the opener of the 58th New York Film Festival this past week. McQueen’s
‘Tenet’ is the Poor Execution of an Incomplete Thought
There are puzzling, mystery movies that are fun to try to solve, and then
September 13, 2020
‘Madchen in Uniform’ and the Subversive Nature of Love
One of the most remarkable aspects of Leontine Sagan’s Madchen in Uniform
July 24, 2020
‘Paracelsus’ Exposes the Tension Between Subversion and Propaganda
To understand a society, watch its films. Germany during the rise of the
June 18, 2020
‘Shirley,’ or: Why Men Should Be Afraid
Josephine Decker’s gorgeous new film Shirley opens with Rose (Odessa Young)
June 14, 2020
The Time To Do Better Is Now
In 2016, not long before Trump’s election, film criticism had a proto-MeToo
June 9, 2020
Damestruck: Olivia (1951)
To hear many male critics tell it, lesbians were invented sometime in the
June 4, 2020