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V.27 No.14 | 4/5/2018
Film Review
Isle of Dogs
Meticulously animated feature is a fantastic(al) journey
Akira Kurosawa’s scruffy aesthetic is undoubtedly what’s fueling Isle of Dogs’ creative engines. Feel free to discuss at length—over third wave, cold-brewed coffee, perhaps—whether Wes Anderson’s miniaturization of Japanese culture asks audiences to laugh with or at the stereotypes.
V.27 No.2 | 1/11/2018
Film Review
Call Me By Your Name
Languid romance withers under the Tuscan sun
Stripped of its postcard beauty and its academic pretensions, Call Me By Your Name is little more than a soapy, overlong melodrama.
V.26 No.3 | 1/19/2017
Film Review
20th Century Women
Coming-of-age dramedy looks for family in friends
20th Century Women is an ensemble cast character sketch, imagining its people as products of their late 1970s era and environment.
V.25 No.51 | 12/22/2016
Film Review
Jackie
Camelot is born in media-savvy biopic about JFK’s grieving widow
Jackie is an intellectual, visually stylized exercise in nostalgia and myth-making—crystalizing the moment when politics became more about optics.
V.25 No.28 | 7/14/2016
Film Review
Wiener-Dog
Morosely amused filmmaker constructs a shaggy dog tale for a change
Morosely amused filmmaker constructs a shaggy dog tale for a change.
V.25 No.23 | 6/9/2016
Film Review
Maggie’s Plan
Control, narcissism and love mix with oddball results
Funny one-liners and strange antics keep the story moving along even if hazy clouds of anthropology jargon glaze the eyes every once in a while.
V.21 No.27 | 7/5/2012
Film Review
To Rome With Love
Woody Allen’s having a wonderful time in Italy, but you’ll wish you weren’t there
Prior to 2005, when he was a strictly New York kind of guy, Woody Allen’s batting average was quite high. From 1969’s Take the Money and Run to 1987’s Radio Days, Allen pumped out an unbroken string of classic films (1987’s September was his first seriously meh effort). Even figuring in misses like 1998’s Celebrity and 2003’s Anything Else, you could put him at about a .750—pretty high for a guy who’s put out at least one movie a year since 1969.
