The new thriller Goodnight Mommy follows a child’s simple what-if question to horrific lengths.
Author: Mark Jenkins
An Inventive Story Of Connection And Isolation In ‘Blind’
The story of a blind woman who confines herself to her Oslo apartment explores surprising connections between characters within a deftly constructed narrative.
‘We Are Your Friends’ Gets A Blissful Beat, Sometimes
Zac Efron is little more than a good-looking void in this story of dance music in the San Fernando Valley, but the film is intermittently engaging as a medley of themes and genres.
‘Learning To Drive’ On Well-Traveled Roads
A charming performance from Patricia Clarkson can’t overcome the conventional notes of a story about a privileged woman and a struggling immigrant.
Generation Y Satire Meets Screwball Comedy In ‘Mistress America’
The latest film from Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig is a jumbled tale of a college student and her future stepsister.
‘The End Of The Tour’ Is A Film For David Foster Wallace Buffs
The movie, which draws from journalist David Lipsky’s interviews with Wallace in 1996, offers an intriguing (if not altogether convincing) portrait of the Infinite Jest author.
‘A Gay Girl’ Who Was Not What She Seemed
A new documentary looks at a blog ostensibly written by a Syrian woman that turned out to have an entirely different origin story.
A Widely Praised Documentary Gets An Even Better Second Chapter
The documentary The Act Of Killing looked at a brutal slaughter through the lens of action films. Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up, The Look Of Silence, is just as powerful and more subtle.
A Widely Praised Documentary Gets An Even Better Second Chapter
The documentary The Act Of Killing looked at a brutal slaughter through the lens of action films. Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up, The Look Of Silence, is just as powerful and more subtle.
Coming Back As A Better Slab Of Beef Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Self/less is a dull rumination on familiar themes about body-swapping and life-swapping, exploring none of the actually provocative questions it raises.