Pedro Almodóvar’s elegant and animated artistic vision colors death in bright reds and jagged purples, turning “The Room Next Door”…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in New York. His favorite director is Robert Altman and he dearly misses Netflix's delivery DVD service.
The interiors set the mood in “Maria,” the latest gilded-edged biopic from Pablo Larraín. Crisp and sparkling, the look-don’t-touch aura…
Published in 2019, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys” boldly reworked the harrowing, scarier-than-fiction true story of the…
Sean Baker’s “Anora” is a wild, raucous ride, sprinting across a high-wire while somehow maintaining its composure. A filmmaking style…
Around the midway point of Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes,” Miguel (Manolo Solo) picks up a guitar and croons “My…
Every year, I make a point of checking in on my favorite films. Rewatching great films can be soothing and…
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The best role Shelley Duvall played was herself. No one could do it better. Plenty have tried: I recently rewatched…
Silence reigns for so much of Angela Schanelec’s bold, brooding and stealthily uplifting “Music” that the title itself starts to…
To mark the New York premiere of Annie Baker’s “Janet Planet,” the writer/director programmed a 17-film series, titled “Angels and…