Last Men In Aleppo director Fayyad returns with a harrowing look at life in an underground hospital in Syria.
Theatrical Film Reviews
Joshua Brunsting
Joshua Reviews Francois Ozon’s By The Grace Of God [Theatrical Review]
Beloved French auteur Francois Ozon returns with a captivating, unshakable rumination on grief through a tale of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.
Joshua Reviews Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite [Theatrical Review]
Director Bong Joon-ho returns with one of the year's most anticipated films, a Palme d'Or satire as biting as it is brazenly entertaining.
Joshua Reviews Serge Gainsbourg’s Je T’aime Moi Non Plus [Theatrical Review]
Serge Gainsbourg's debut directing effort is a captivating, if ultimately uneven, erotic thriller truly unlike anything before or since.
Joshua Reviews Michel Ocelot’s Dilili In Paris [Theatrical Review]
Director Michel Ocelot returns with a captivating rumination on feminism and racism in Belle Epoque Paris.
Joshua Reviews Takashi Miike’s First Love [Theatrical Review]
Now well over 100 films into his career, Takashi Miike not only continues subverting genre expectations, but is doing so in ways increasingly entertaining.
Joshua Reviews Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro [Theatrical Review]
Paolo Sorrentino returns with a timely, if thin, look at power and corruption among the 1%.
Joshua Reviews Robert Luketic’s The Wedding Year
Legally Blonde-helmer Robert Luketic returns with this wafer thin, yet oddly charming romantic comedy.
Joshua Reviews Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona [Theatrical Review]
With his latest foray into the world of sports documentary, filmmaker Asif Kapadia once again cements himself as one of the great documentarians of this generation.
Joshua Reviews Alejandro Landes’ Monos [Theatrical Review]
Landes returns with one of the year's most singular films, a haunting and visceral political allegory unlike anything you've seen in 2019.
Joshua Reviews Irene Taylor Brodsky’s Moonlight Sonata: Deafness In Three Movements [Theatrical Review]
This intimate, generation-spanning memoir is a tender look at life with hearing loss that's as intimate narratively as it is universal emotionally.
Joshua Reviews Lindsey Cordero And Armando Croda’s I’m Leaving Now [Theatrical Review]
After a much-heralded festival run, this empathetic portrait of one man's struggle to get back to his family finally arrives in theaters.
Joshua Reviews Janice Engel’s Raise Hell: The Life And Times Of Molly Ivins [Theatrical Review]
The legendary political commentator is the subject of a new propulsive, if rudimentary, biographical documentary
Joshua Reviews Julia Reichert And Steven Bognar’s American Factory [Theatrical Review]
Oscar nominees Reichert and Bognar return with yet another brilliant rumination on life in the American manufacturing machine.
NYC’s Metrograph Launches New ‘Shaw Sisters’ Retrospective Highlighting Shaw Brothers Films Directed By Women
This new retrospective runs August 23-September 8