The introductory prep school shenanigans—your mom jokes, bartering for weed—in Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers” mostly serve to generate cheap laughs,…
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 fundamental question that drives Justine Triet’s taut Palme D’or winner “Anatomy of a Fall” is whether blaring 50 Cent’s…
Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” throbs with danger, navigating a whipsawing course of hair-raising thrills and bone-chilling hazards while maintaining a steady,…
The chief concern of Rosine Mbakam’s “Mambar Pierrette” is the fight to survive. But, if that summary regales a large-scale…
The seventeenth edition of the New York Film Festival opened with the Italian provocateur Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Luna” (1979), a love…
It would be simple to call Radu Jude’s “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” this…
Making a stark pivot from the Manhattan humor and hijinks of Moonstruck (1987) – complete with an opera-obsessed, tortured man…
Do not be fooled by the singing, dancing, and occasional Bradley Cooper method outburst. “Maestro” is a serious film. It…
Pierre Creton’s “A Prince,” which made its North American premiere Saturday in the New York Film Festival’s Currents section, has a…
Faithful to genre tropes without betraying the iconic director’s flair for melodrama, Pedro Almodóvar’s “Strange Way of Life” delights in…