Joshua Reviews Antonio Mendez Esparza’s Life And Nothing More [Theatrical Review]
byAlready a winner from March’s awards circuit, Life and Nothing More is an Independent Spirit-winning drama that’s one of the year’s great American discoveries.
Theatrical Film Reviews
Joshua Reviews Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching For Ingmar Bergman [Theatrical Review]
byMargarethe von Trotta’s new documentary is a handsome, if occasionally thin, look at the work and life of one of cinema’s great artists.
Joshua Reviews Melanie Laurent’s Galveston [Theatrical Review]
byActor-turned-filmmaker Melanie Laurent returns with this pulpy noir driven by two ace lead performances.
Joshua Reviews Ruth Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz [Theatrical Review]
byComing 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.
Joshua Reviews Gabriel Abrantes And Daniel Schmidt’s Diamantino [NYFF Review]
byOpening 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]
byGaston 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]
byAfter 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 world before it swallows her up for good.
Joshua Reviews Jonathan And Elan Bogarin’s 306 Hollywood [Theatrical Review]
byThis strange, profoundly moving look at a life lived and the objects left behind is a thrilling experiment in non-fiction filmmaking.
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.
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.