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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Review: The Stories We Tell Ourselves After Dark
In the opening paragraphs of his 2004 novel After Dark, Murakami Haruki likens urban Tokyo to a living, breathing organism. “To the rhythm of its pulsing, all parts of the body flicker and flare up and...
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Close Your Eyes Review: Victor Erice’s Righteously Frustrated Reckoning with...
Themes of aging have always undergirded Victor Erice’s work. His feature debut, 1973’s Spirit of the Beehive, is one of the finest of all coming-of-age films, capturing a few days in the life of a...
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The Boy and the Heron Review: An Audacious Fable About Searching for Truth in...
One of the most vital skills an animator can hone is a sense for how gravity will bear down on their subjects in realistic and legible ways. A character who weighs nothing appears stripped of...
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Review: Miyazaki Hayao’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ on Shout! Factory 4K UHD...
One of the most vital skills that an animator can hone is a sense for how gravity will bear down on their subjects in realistic and legible ways. A character who weighs nothing can appear stripped of...
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‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of a Missing Child
Every generation deserves a version of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom to call its own, including and especially one for which there are few aspects of life that can’t be mediated by screens. Indeed, it’s...
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‘Hard Truths’ Review: Mike Leigh’s Compassionate Portrait of a Woman on the...
Few filmmakers can electrify the mundane as convincingly as Mike Leigh, whose trademark style—broadly characterized by discreet pacing and stripped-back storylines—belies a meticulous narrative rigor....
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‘I’m Still Here’ Review: Walter Salles’s Personal Chronicle of a Political...
There are traces of something genuinely exploratory in Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here, the director’s first fiction feature in 12 years and certainly one of his most personal. Based on Marcelo Rubens...
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