A grueling and gritty true-crime provocation, John McNaughton’s “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” fashions itself as an enigma, a…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in Manhattan with his family. In addition to film criticism, he writes short fiction. Kevin's main area of interest is misunderstood older films, which he prefers to watch either at NYC's Film Forum or on DVD at home.
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…
Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) sits at a desk in a dimly-lit room, writing in a notebook. In another movie, this…
In the closing credits of Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness,” Michael Haneke is listed among those the…
A goodie bag of candy-colored nostalgia, Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” is a stylish and ambitious take on Don DeLillo’s postmodern…
The ghost of Jean-Luc Godard looms large over cinema, especially French cinema, so it’s fitting I was watching François Truffaut’s…
Water really is everywhere in Elena López Riera’s “El agua.” And, just as in the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, water’s…
Adaptability is the reason for a coyote’s survival. According to National Geographic, coyotes will eat anything — mice, lizards, insects…