Films by Gena Rowlands and John Garfield at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival show us the deep emotional power of the method acting approach.
John Garfield: The Father of Method Acting
Category: Sketches
Sweet and earnest dives into the bowels of cinema.
Videoheaven Lovingly Resurrects a Lost World
Over the course of three hours, Alex Ross Perry knowingly charts the rise and fall of the video store, from cultural icon to modern irrelevance.
Jurassic World Rebirth Puts the Awe Back in Dinosaur
Jurassic World Rebirth is a welcome return to form for a franchise that had severely lost its way, even if the final screenplay is somewhat wanting.
Gatsby with the Dad Jokes
Tim Key provides a masterclass of tragicomic acting in the subtle yet often hilarious The Ballad of Wallis Island, replete with brilliant folk songs.
M3gan 2.0 Is Everything You Want — And More
The sequel to surprise hit M3GAN, M3GAN 2.0 dives headfirst into deranged action-comedy mayhem — and is a wildly enjoyable, if uneven ride.
The Salt Path Takes a Hike
Despite its beautiful scenery and excellent performances, coastal drama The Salt Path can’t walk its way into a compelling storyline.
American Psycho’s Prophetic Vision of Masculinity and Meme Culture
Once seen as a grotesque satire of greed and masculine performance, American Psycho now reveals how easily critique can slip into aspiration.
Breathless (1983) — Don’t Respect the Original!
With 1983’s Breathless, we see the key bridge between Godard’s playfulness and Taratino’s particularly American postmodernism. Available on Tubi!
It’s a Wonderful Dog!
A great canine acting talent is wasted in The Friend, a tale of Naomi Watts adopting a Great Dane that is heavy on the schmaltz, but lacking in punch.
The Wedding Banquet. Boring Gay Asians.
The Wedding Banquet is a broad remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 work that drains the rich cultural specificity of the subject matter into boring slop.