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Reviews
Joshua Brunsting
Joshua Reviews Ruth Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz [Theatrical Review]
Coming off its run at this year's New York Film Festival, The Waldheim Waltz is a harrowing look at a man whose rise to power feels all too timely in today's political landscape.
Trevor Reviews Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham [Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review]
Earlier this year The Criterion Collection released Ron Shelton's Bull Durham, giving us a great opportunity to revisit a maligned classic. The film, though, doesn't deserve derision. It's a delicate, and often funny...
Trevor Berrett
Trevor Reviews Olivier Assayas’s Cold Water [Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review]
After decades of obscurity, Olivier Assayas's Cold Water is finally available in a lovely edition from The Criterion Collection. This is as it should be. The film is a masterpiece.
Joshua Reviews Gabriel Abrantes And Daniel Schmidt’s Diamantino [NYFF Review]
Opening this year's NYFF Projections lineup is one of 2018's great debuts, an uneven but transgressive satire with bite.
Joshua Reviews Gaston Solnicki’s Introduzione all’Oscuro [NYFF Review]
Gaston Solnicki returns with a moving look into the life of a legendary art film figure and a fallen friend.
Joshua Reviews Eva Vives’ All About Nina [Theatrical Review]
After a rocky opening act, All About Nina goes from heavy-handed look at a standup trying to make it in the business and becomes a nuanced portrait of a woman dealt a bad hand in life, trying to find a place in the...
Joshua Reviews Jonathan And Elan Bogarin’s 306 Hollywood [Theatrical Review]
This strange, profoundly moving look at a life lived and the objects left behind is a thrilling experiment in non-fiction filmmaking.
Joshua Reviews Daniel Petrie’s A Raisin In The Sun [Blu-ray Review]
This legendary screen adaptation of the groundbreaking Lorraine Hansberry play finally arrives on Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray, and is a solid, context-heavy dive into one of the most culturally significant...
Joshua Reviews Roger Michell’s Tea With The Dames [Theatrical Review]
This new documentary sees four of the great actresses of stage and screen in conversation, and is as witty as it is flatly made.
Scott Reviews Wash Westmoreland’s Colette [Theatrical Review]
Writer/director Wash Westmoreland has fiercely claimed his place among the smartest and most thoughtful of commercial filmmakers.
Scott Nye
Joshua Reviews Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not [Theatrical Review]
The winner of this year's Golden Bear, Touch Me Not is a thrilling blurring of the line between fiction and non-fiction filmmaking, a docu-drama hybrid that's as claustrophobic as it is emotionally devastating.
Joshua Reviews Paul Weitz’s Bel Canto [Theatrical Review]
Despite being led by two truly great actors, Bel Canto is, sadly, a flat misfire.
Documentary Filmmaking In 2018: From Hagiography To Bisbee ’17
Through three documentaries opening this weekend, we look at the current state of documentary filmmaking.
Joshua Reviews Helene Cattet And Bruno Forzani’s Let The Corpses Tan [Theatrical Review]
A riff on Italian crime films of the 1970's, Let The Corpses Tan is a gorgeous, unwieldy experiment in genre filmmaking.