Vicky Krieps: how does she do it? It’s tempting to call her effortless, since her characters tend to have such…
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.
A legal drama that spends no time in an actual courtroom, Orson Welles’ “The Trial” (1962) takes a Hitchcockian conceit—the wrongfully…
Chantal Akerman’s 201-minute epic “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (1975) soared 34 spots to take over as…
On December 1st, Sight & Sound magazine will announce the results of its once-a-decade poll, surveying global critics, directors, and…
A restless, dizzyingly-curious auteur, Claire Denis is right at home filming in war-torn Nicaragua, reporting on the micro and macro…
Two months before the release of “King Kong” (1933) would make ‘The Scream Queen’ Fay Wray a star, audiences witnessed…
A grueling and gritty true-crime provocation, John McNaughton’s “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” fashions itself as an enigma, a…
Doris Day’s “Que Sera, Sera” plays at the beginning and end of “Father of My Children” (2009), Mia Hansen-Løve’s second…
The blend of horror and humor in Ken Russell’s “The Lair of the White Worm” goes too far in both…
Raymond Carver bristled at the term “minimalism,” when it was used to describe his work. His prose, with its spare…