On December 1st, Sight & Sound magazine will announce the results of its once-a-decade poll, surveying global critics, directors, and…
Author: Kevin Parks
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…
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…