‘Electra’ Review: Not Exactly a Unicorn
One doesn’t have to delve too deeply into the name Electra to imagine tragedy’s-a-comin’ in the director Hala…
‘Bonjour Tristesse’ Review: Goodbye Girlhood
Durga Chew-Bose boldly reimagines a work once adapted by Otto Preminger in her beguiling first film set on…
‘Thunderbolts*’ review: Marvel sets expectations low, meets them
Marvel’s jokey, moody and middling “Thunderbolts*” returns the blockbuster franchise to the geeks. Only audiences caught up with…
‘A Desert’ Review: Motel Hell
Alex (Kai Lennox), the hero of Joshua Erkman’s languid, atmospheric neo-noir “A Desert,” is a photographer past his…
‘Another Simple Favor’ Review: Big Hats and Big Intrigue
“Another Simple Favor” escapes the pedestrian upscale suburban setting of its predecessor, flying (via private plane, naturally) to…
‘Rust’ Review: Alec Baldwin Western Hit by Tragedy Is a Hard Watch
It’s impossible to watch “Rust,” a period western steeped in death, without thinking about the catastrophe that occurred…
‘The Four Seasons’ Review: Tepid Trouble in Middle-Aged Paradise
Fey has depicted teenhood (“Mean Girls”), budding adulthood (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), established-and-working adulthood (“30 Rock”) and now the…
‘Lavender Men’ Review: Daring to Reimagine ‘America’s Daddy’
A writer rethinks queer history through Abraham Lincoln’s political ambitions, but needs a few present-day edits.
‘The Surfer’ review: Nicolas Cage rides the edge of madness
A sunny beach noir sounds like a contradiction until you’re sweating in the sand aware of the sting…
‘Vulcanizadora’ Review: Guilt Trip
Two midlife losers reckon with past mistakes on a despairing and oddly haunting trip into the woods and…