You don’t often see a realistic story about sabotaging Texas oil infrastructure on American movie screens, but “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” dramatizes in detail the bombing plot of a group...
Read moreIt’s hard to pick the most surreal part of Julius Avery’s new horror film. It could be that the main character is based on the very real Rev. Gabriele Amorth, who used...
Read more‘Infinite Sea’Rent or buy on Amazon or Vudu.The writer-director Carlos Amaral’s debut feature seems to be set in the 1980s, including repeated shots of boxy computer consoles with flickering data scrolling on...
Read moreHaving seen Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s other work, Crémieux, now chief executive for Marseille’s university hospitals, recognized that he had no idea what they would make. “Whatever the rational discussion could be at...
Read moreThe director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film to premiere in U.S. theaters, “Passion,” is also one of his oldest — a confident if uneven new piece of 15-year-old context for one of cinema’s...
Read moreWhen David Johansen’s alter ego, Buster Poindexter, swings into “Funky but Chic” early in “Personality Crisis: One Night Only” — a documentary co-directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi — a viewer...
Read moreCount Dracula has been dead for so long and gone through so many iterations — exotic, satanic, romantic — that it’s almost surprising there’s any juice left in the thirsty old boy....
Read moreBefore production started on his guilelessly charming biopic “Hilma,” about the mystical artist Hilma af Klint, the Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom insisted on a séance to meet his subject. The painter, who...
Read moreFor long stretches of its two-hour running time, “Rare Objects,” a story of recovery and addiction based on Kathleen Tessaro’s novel of the same name, is a heavy, somewhat slow-moving drama that...
Read moreMakoto Shinkai is often praised as a descendant of the great Hayao Miyazaki for his masterly animation, and his latest film, “Suzume,” is no exception. The film speaks the same cinematic language,...
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