It’s rare that a film artisan attains such a level of craft that they wind up becoming an artist themselves. It’s even rarer that you get to spend hours and hours sitting by that artist’s […]
Jordan Mintzer
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Add a “y” to the title of Italian director Giulio Bertelli’s haunting high-art debut and you’ll get a good idea of what’s in store: plenty of agony, both physical and mental, in an eerily life-like […]
The press notes for the high-concept, single-setting Japanese thriller Exit 8 explain that the film is a “big-screen adaptation of the viral indie video-game sensation.” Call me old, or a luddite, or maybe both, but […]
As a critic, it’s not exactly encouraging when you’ve been assigned to review a documentary called The Last Critic. Given the imperiled state of the profession right now, I was half expecting to watch some […]
In writer-directors Raviv Ullman’s and Greg Yagolnitzer’s twisted feature debut, Drag, Lizzy Caplan has her body tested in ways that didn’t even happen on Masters of Sex, the transgressive Showtime series that propelled her into […]
There’s so much true crime content out there that it’s sometimes hard to tell one sordid exposé from the other. Most of them tend to apply the same formula and aesthetic: plots twists and reversals […]