Do not be fooled by the singing, dancing, and occasional Bradley Cooper method outburst. “Maestro” is a serious film. It…
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.
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…
In December 2022, ‘Sight & Sound’ released its once-a-decade ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ ranking. This was the year the…
In December 2022, Sight & Sound released its once-a-decade ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ ranking. This was the year the…
Of all Robert Altman’s 1970s genre subversions, surely “Thieves Like Us” had the most promising commercial prospects. A nostalgic ode…
A seminal entry in the sub-genre of ugly things happening to beautiful people in beautiful places, Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt” is…
During one of the more predictable sequences of drunken meandering and wanton womanizing in Marco Ferreri’s “Tales of Ordinary Madness”…
To prepare for Ari Aster’s “Beau is Afraid” (2023), I watched Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” (2008) for the first time…
“Jake says, ‘You dumb f–ck,’ and Joey says, ‘You dumb f–ck,” and they repeat it and repeat it. And I…