Joshua Reviews Roger Michell’s Tea With The Dames [Theatrical Review]
byThis new documentary sees four of the great actresses of stage and screen in conversation, and is as witty as it is flatly made.
Theatrical Film Reviews
Scott Reviews Wash Westmoreland’s Colette [Theatrical Review]
byWriter/director Wash Westmoreland has fiercely claimed his place among the smartest and most thoughtful of commercial filmmakers.
Joshua Reviews Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not [Theatrical Review]
byThe 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]
byDespite being led by two truly great actors, Bel Canto is, sadly, a flat misfire.
Documentary Filmmaking In 2018: From Hagiography To Bisbee ’17
byThrough 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]
byA riff on Italian crime films of the 1970’s, Let The Corpses Tan is a gorgeous, unwieldy experiment in genre filmmaking.
Joshua Reviews Emmanuelle Finkiel’s Memoir Of War [Theatrical Review]
byThis adaptation of a beloved WWII memoir is a haunted meditation on grief and loss.
Joshua Reviews Andrew Bujalski’s Support The Girls [Theatrical Review]
byMumblecore grandfather returns with his most commercial work to date, and also one of his most mature and moving.
Joshua Reviews Bertrand Mandico’s The Wild Boys [Theatrical Review]
byThis transgressive look at gender and sexuality is one of 2018’s great debut feature films.
Joshua Reviews Jeremiah Zagar’s We The Animals [Theatrical Review]
byThis Sundance award-winning coming of age tale is an impressionistic look at a sensitive young boy caught in a chaotic world.
Joshua Reviews Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman [Theatrical Review]
bySpike Lee returns with a film that sees the legendary filmmaker at the height of his powers, bringing to theaters the movie of the year.
Joshua Reviews Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Nico, 1988 [Theatrical Review]
byThis haunting look at the late days of one of rock’s great enigmas, Nico, 1988 is one of the year’s great surprises.
Joshua Reviews Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline [Fantasia 2018]
byIndie darling Josephine Decker returns with her best film to date, a devastating character study that’s one of 2018’s most original films.
Joshua Reviews Sion Sono’s Tokyo Vampire Hotel [Fantasia 2018]
bySion Sono returns with a feature-length cut of his Amazon Prime series Tokyo Vampire Hotel, and it’s one of his most ambitious, and cumbersome, films to date.
Joshua Reviews John Hanson And Rob Nilsson’s The Prairie Trilogy [Theatrical Review]
byMade of three short documentaries, this trilogy shines a light on an unsung American political figure and the Socialist movement he helped to foster.
Joshua Reviews Ujicha’s Violence Voyager [Fantasia 2018]
byViolence Voyager is a gnarly experiment in animation that’s unlike anything you’ll see this year.