published on Jun. 30, 2015 11pm
Adapted by Jesse Andrews from his own young adult novel, this film may be most appreciated by people rather older than the ostensible target market.
published on Jun. 30, 2015 11pm
Gemma Bovery has its amusements, but it’s never quite as sharp as it wants to be.
published on Jun. 23, 2015 9pm
Binx, the narrator of Walker Percy’s 1961 novel The Moviegoer, resorts to watching motion pictures to relieve the oppressive, vulgar “everydayness” of middle-class American life. Binx is trying to at least periodically escape from his life.
published on Jun. 17, 2015 12am
Cédric Jimenez’s The Connection is apparently intended to give the French side of The French Connection story.
published on May. 21, 2015 3pm
The late Albert Maysles (he died on March 5), one-half of the fraternal duo – with David Maysles – that gave us Grey Gardens years ago, left us this documentary, a discerning portrait of Iris Apfel, flamboyantly self-assured maven of style and exponent of the life force. She is the 94-...
published on May. 21, 2015 2pm
At the very beginning of Felix Herngren’s whimsical, genially mordant comedy, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) seems an expectedly doddering incompetent.
published on May. 13, 2015 12am
Film review of Welcome to Me, starring Kristen Wiig.
published on May. 6, 2015 9am
Audience members entering the New Phoenix Theatre for a performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will find themselves in a substantially transformed space.
published on May. 1, 2015 11am
This production makes as good a case for playwright Martin McDonagh’s challenging, assertively disharmonious vision as one could ask for.
published on Apr. 28, 2015 11pm
There may be two principal market sectors for Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria…
