A Fish Called Wanda: A Classic Comedy with Bite
A Fish Called Wanda (1988) is now considered a comedy classic, directed by Charles Crichton, who came out of semi-retirement at the age of seventy-eight to take it on.
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The Outrun Review: The Colorful Sinks and Swells of Recovery
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Weapons Review: Gone Baby Gone
Despite its R rating, Weapons is not particularly frightening. What it offers instead is an uneasy mix of horror, folklore, dark comedy, and old-school small-town drama.
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Literature Prize
László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard.
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A Fish Called Wanda: A Classic Comedy with Bite
A Fish Called Wanda (1988) is now considered a comedy classic, directed by Charles Crichton, who came out of semi-retirement at the age of seventy-eight to take it on.
Weapons Review: Gone Baby Gone
Despite its R rating, Weapons is not particularly frightening. What it offers instead is an uneasy mix of horror, folklore, dark comedy, and old-school small-town drama.
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Literature Prize
László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: The Grand Feast of a Tyrant – Greenaway’s film
Greenaway trusts the audience to engage visually and emotionally rather than merely following plot points.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story: Beyond the Cape
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is a masterclass in humanizing an icon. It refuses to turn Reeve into a pristine, unreachable superhero.
Julie Keeps Quiet Review: Breaking the Cycle
Julie Keeps Quiet is not about sensational revelations. It’s about the slow internal process of recognizing harm.
Diamonds Review: Can Women Be Cut Like Gems?
He tells them he wants to center his new project around women – because, in his words, “women are my real diamonds.”
September 5 Review: Tragedy, Live From Munich
September 5 is a gripping, grounded, and unsettling new film about the 1972 Munich massacre, where eleven Israeli athletes, coaches…
Goebbels and the Führer Review: A Heavy-Handed Recount of the Propaganda Machinery
Still, Goebbels and the Führer never quite decide whether it wants to be a character study, a historical record, or a lecture in propaganda.