film reviews

With Russell's 1971 musical newly out on Blu-ray, Steve Lippman makes a case for the film being an underappreciated classic.

Sidewalk Stories' legendary writer-director-star Charles Lane takes stock of the reboot of one of his favorite recent TV shows.

The Canadian auteur reconsiders John Schlesinger's expansive take on Nathanael West's classic novella about '30s Hollywood.

Plus a recollection of hanging with Mark Kozelek on the day Kurt Cobain died.

Stephen Winter distracts himself from the horror of political goings on by indulging in the first film by a major new voice in American cinema.

Jim Hemphill on Maggie Greenwald's 1993 revisionist Western, a film that brilliantly and insightfully plays with the tropes of the genre.

Randy Russell on Kedi, the delightful new documentary about street cats in Istanbul which he has been watching on heavy rotation.

The Canadian provocateur (and champion of unfairly neglected movies) focuses on two from the late actress in which she plays against type.

Luke Haines (the Auteurs, Black Box Recorder) thinks Ty had a little Marc in his heart.

Jim Hemphill on how the History Channel's surprising new series – and especially Kimberly Peirce's episode – shows cinema how it's done.

Channeling Claudia Rankine, Talkhouse Film's poet laureate Terence Nance looks at the present moment through one of the finest films of 2016.

Terence Nance on Mira Nair's Disney movie about a young Ugandan chess prodigy, a film that's as uplifting as it promises to be.