The relationship between critic and art is one fraught with dangers of compromise, hypocrisy, and a cynicism as deep as it is wide. “Art,” of course, applies to film, television, video games, and in Velvet Buzzsaw, contemporary works and paintings.…
‘The Tomorrow Man’ Review: John Lithgow and Blythe Danner Are An Irresistible Odd Couple | Sundance 2019
It’s no exaggeration to insist that John Lithgow is one of the finest actors of our time. He’s proven it endlessly with a fairly consistent, decade-spanning career of TV, film, and theater roles, culminating with his recent Emmy win for…
‘Fighting with My Family’ Review: A Wrestling Comedy that Doesn’t Pull Punches | Sundance 2019
Paige and her brother Zak (Florence Pugh and Jack Lowden) want nothing more than to be professional wrestlers, to be whisked away from their small town in England and into the throes of Wrestlemania in America. They were born into…
‘The Brink’ Review: Steve Bannon Gets a Reckoning of His Own Making | Sundance 2019
For one year, director Alison Klayman (whose last Sundance film was the wonderful 2012 documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) followed the work and life of far-right political activist and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon. Her camera stayed glued on him…
The Kid Who Would Be King Movie Review: A family film with a sharp edge
In The Kid Who Would Be King, you will believe a 12-year-old boy and his band of friends—er, knights—can save Britain. And not just from a magical force of darkness or two, but also from the current divisive times that…
Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old Is a WWI Documentary In Stunning Color, Not Substance
It’ll likely surprise fans of Peter Jackson — director of The Lord of the Rings franchise, The Hobbit franchise, and the 2005 King Kong — to hear that the New Zealand-based filmmaker has directed and co-produced a new documentary about The…
