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Only the River Flows Review: A Small Town Neo-Noir that Balances Empathy and Melancholy
by admin|16 hours ago|The Film Stage
Wei Shujun’s detective noir Only the River Flows (based on a story of the same name by Chinese author Yu Hua) is set in a small town along a river in China’s Jiangdong province where it seems the sun never...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Mexican Popular Cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville, Playtime on 70mm, Bresson & More
by admin|17 hours ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA retrospective of Mexican popular cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s is underway. Film ForumA career-spanning Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective has begun; restorations of Ann Hui’s July Rhapsody (watch our...
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The Fabulous Four
by admin|18 hours ago|Roger Ebert
If you're a distinguished older male actor in Hollywood, you're typically cast as Batman’s sidekick or a WWII veteran who escapes from assisted living (Michael Caine), God or a grieving father (Morgan Freeman), a brilliant psychotherapist or Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford),...
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The Last Breath
by admin|18 hours ago|Roger Ebert
Sharks, while undeniably lethal, are also, studies have shown, kind of dumb. And “The Last Breath” is a cheesy new thriller that is even dumber than a real shark. Not that it features any real sharks — the predatory creatures here...
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The Girl in the Pool
by admin|18 hours ago|Roger Ebert
The suburbs are hell. That's what the movies keep telling us. Perfect nuclear families living in their McMansions are often anything but perfect. It's not exactly new cinematic territory, but it's a well that gets tapped often because it's just...
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Dìdi (弟弟)
by admin|18 hours ago|Roger Ebert
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I return to a film to discover my initial gut reaction might have been a bit too harsh. When I first watched Sean Wang’s emotionally brutal coming of age film “Didi” at Sundance—where it...
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Retrospective: Jean-Pierre Melville and the Cinematic Hitman
by admin|18 hours ago|Roger Ebert
When thinking about the present resurgence of the cinematic hitman, it’s difficult not to immediately think about the legacy of Jean-Pierre Melville. My thoughts on Melville’s impact on the stock character have been percolating through several critics’ mentions of the...
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New To Streaming: La Práctica, Kill, Starve Acre, Nothing Compares & More
by admin|19 hours ago|The Film Stage
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah) Bad Boys: Ride...
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Amman 2024 Review: MY SWEET LAND, And The Usefulness Of Having Dreams
by admin|23 hours ago|Screen Anarchy
My Sweet Land of Sareen Hairabedian was one of the stronger films in a small but mostly strong feature documentary competition section of the 2024 Amman International Film Festival. The film gained not only the International Film Critics Fipresci Award...
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THE GIRL IN THE POOL Exclusive Clip: Freddie Prinze Jr. Goes Off The Deep End in Thriller
by admin|1 day ago|Screen Anarchy
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Monica Potter star in a domestic thriller The Girl in the Pool. It is a reunion of the two stars who first acted together in the rom com Head Over Heels in 2001. Here they play husband...
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