Sleeping with Other People
Coming on the heels of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck, writer-director Leslye Headland’s Sleeping With Other People comes across like the sly, …
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‘Stonewall’ Hides Behind Dramatic Stereotypes
Roland Emmerich, over the course of his illustrious filmmaking career, has attempted to write disaster fantasy on the largest canvas …
Goodnight Mommy
The screenwriting and directing duo of Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz has concocted a diabolical hybrid — a movie that …
Toronto International Film Festival: A Soundtrack
Every year, themes emerge from my personal film festival schedule. Sometimes it is difficult to spot the through-line that connects …
Grandma
It would be far too easy to watch Grandma, the new film from writer-director Paul Weitz (About a Boy), and …
The Anticipated End of the Labor Day Movie Blues
Not so long ago, the fallow period in the film-release schedule used to be in the early part of the …
From ‘Mistress America’ to Majority Rule
Snagging an interview with a rising star, a sure-to-be It-Girl player like Lola Kirke, is definitely a catch-as-catch-can proposition. Kirke …
Mistress America
Indie filmmaker Noah Baumbach continues his run with contemporary screwball queen Greta Gerwig — following her anchoring supporting turn in …
Z for Zachariah
Director Craig Zobel (Compliance) and screenwriter Nissar Modi (Breaking at the Edge) transform Robert C. O’Brien’s post-apocalyptic science-fiction tale into …
Crack Open ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ At Your Own Risk
I live in a house with a pair of teenage girls, so the idea of having access to their diaries …
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