This week’s roundup includes reviews of the latest French body-horror entry, “The Substance,” starring—of all people—Demi Moore; Elizabeth Banks trying on an accent in the New Zealand hospital drama “A Mistake”; Bob Hoskins in the classic British crime drama “The Long...
Author - Kevin Filipski
This week’s roundup features reviews of “My Old Ass” (in theaters), a new comedy with the always-great Aubrey Plaza; and Mexican director Lila Avilés’ impressive sophomore feature “Tótem” and the slick horror flick “Late Night With the Devil” (both on Blu-ray). In...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of director Sean Wang’s delightful exploration of adolescence, “Didi”; Edie Falco’s formidable performance in “I’ll Be Right There”; and an interesting documentary about Donald Trump, “#UNTRUTH,” that unfortunately won’t be seen by...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of the first film by Spanish auteur Victor Erice in over three decades (“Close Your Eyes”), the latest absurdist comedy by Belgian directors Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (“The Falling Star”) and a dramatic showdown between...
This week’s roundup includes the unforgettable refugee drama by Polish director Agnieszka Holland, “Green Border,” now streaming; the return of the controversial “Caligula,” in theaters; and two recent releases now on 4K/UHD: Jeff Nichols’ new drama “The Bikeriders”...
My latest roundup features reviews of new releases: the powerfully evocative love story between two young women, “The Beautiful Summer” (streaming); the impressive documentaries, “Electric Lady Studios—A Jimi Hendrix Vision” and “Modernism Inc.” (both in theaters); and...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new releases, including the biopic about a Czech composer who predated Mozart, “The Bohemian” (streaming); the serial-killer drama “Longlegs” (in theaters); the Emily Blunt-Ryan Gosling rom-com, “The Fall Guy” (4K); and...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of “Fresh Kills,” the impressive writing-directing-acting effort by Jennifer Esposito (streaming); the new “Rocky” box set (4K); fascinating documentaries, on Blu-ray, about artist Anselm Keifer (“Anselm”) and Pink Floyd founder Syd...
This week’s roundup includes a trio of standout features: the Blu-ray release of last year’s best film, Marco Bellocchio’s exciting, densely political and religious thriller “Kidnapped”; the 4K release of the latest—last?—animated film from legendary Japanese director...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of a mix of old and new titles, from Criterion’s 4K release of Sam Peckinpah’s 1973 revisionist western “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” and two vintage Sherlock Holmes Blu-ray releases with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as the...
