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 No Sudden Move An ironic title for a film that involves so many stunning little shifts in loyalty between its characters, Steven Soderbergh...

Ettore Scola's "A Special Day" features an enthralling camera shot that does a lot more than map out the geographical terrain ...

I can only imagine the reaction if Les Blank's "A Poem Is a Naked Person" had actually been unleashed on the movie-going publi...

A science fiction invasion film as seen through the (mostly) serene eyes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, "Before We Vanish" brews at the same...

My favorite moment from any Hou Hsiao-Hsien film.

1. Bloody Kids (1980)- Stephen Frears' film about two young boys (Richard Thomas and Peter Clark) surging through the nocturnal wastela...

Towards the very end of Bertrand Tavernier's rambling but masterful "Captain Conan", the titular character (played with bull h...

Inspired by the now defunct Film Comment "Moments Out of Time" series and the great Roger Ebert's year end recap, this Moment...

On the receiving end of widespread acclaim with her latest film "Nomadland", it would behoove anyone interested in Chloe Zhao as a...

As posted at Dallas Film Now:  My favorite movies of the year, in descending order: 15. Tesla 14. Zappa 13. Undine 12. Saint Frances 11. The...

10. Greaser's Palace (1972), directed by Robert Downey  The story of Christ transposed to the American West.... where Christ wears a pu...

 House of Dracula Featuring some moments of intrigue, "House of Dracula" (1945) is most remembered for its ill-advised move to con...

Never Rarely Sometimes Always Filmmaker Eliza Hittman seems especially attuned to the vagaries of adolescent torture.... as if this ces...

Released in 1999- during the explosive and now legendary year of new Hollywood classics produced by expressive individualistic talents- Zhan...

Late in Jean Renoir's first technicolor film "The River", a tragedy strikes the British family living in India's wonderlan...

One might mistake the first third of Marco Bellocchio's latest film "The Traitor" as something produced from the Bruckheimer f...

Gretel and Hansel Compact and atmospheric, Osgood Perkins' "Gretel and Hansel" is remarkable for the way it chokes subdue...

Like many of his contemporaries, director Anthony Mann's filmography swept across the decades of Hollywood's evolution from the ...

Inspired by the now defunct Film Comment "Moments Out of Time" series and the great Roger Ebert's year end recap, this Moments...

20. Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie) Assuredly building a body of work that rings every ounce of desperation, energy and intense mo...