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Quite a few very good films have positioned themselves in Germany in the late 20's and early 30's, never overtly speaking of the nat...

Honed into the type of leisurely, anemic snapshot-of-time that would come to define the careers of Sofia Coppola and scores of others in the...

  Petite Maman Whether one interprets Celine Sciamma's latest film as grounded science fiction time travel fantasy or something much mor...

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) - I went into Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's "Everything Everywhere All At Once...

Two things are made incredibly clear in "Alive In France", Abel Ferrara's documentary about his overseas promotional tour with...

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

Kon Ichikawa's "The Makioka Sisters" trades on alot of the same sentiments that made Ozu such a beloved figure in internationa...

 For full descriptions, please visit this list that published last month here at Dallas Film Now   13. Procession , directed by Robert Green...

  Honorable Mention:  Bloody Kids (1980), directed by Stephen Frears - Stephen Frears' film about two young boys (Richard Thomas and Pe...

Unceremoniously dumped into barely recovered pandemic-era theaters earlier this year after almost 28 months on the shelf, Brad Furman's ...

Thinking back several days after absorbing Edmund Goulding's bleak psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley", I don't recal...

 Titane I'm a sucker for dance sequences in movies, where narrative stops and the only thing that exists is the inebriated will of a fil...

The Card Counter    Playing as mannered as one would expect from a Paul Schrader film about self-imposed loneliness and twisted redemption, ...

Dr. Broadway (1942) ** - Mann's debut film is more of an hour long comedy that doesn't quite hit all its marks as a lawyer has a ver...