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  The Sweet East From its opening few minutes when teenager Lillian (a vibrant Talia Ryder) sings a song into a streaky restroom mirror and ...

1.  Furiosa (2024) - I liked "Fury Road" (2015). "Furiosa" is a masterpiece. It's a film that deepens, strengthens,...

One of the best films of the year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Evil Does Not Exist"is a tantalizing, challenging wonder. Part eco-thr...

If I were sculpting a Mount Rushmore of neo-noir sleuths, the first would be Elliot Gould's Marlowe in "The Long Goodbye". T...

  Origin In "Origin", Ava DuVernay takes a sweeping nonfiction book and not only manages to weave a heartfelt portrait of the auth...

The layers in Martha Coolidge's hybrid documentary "Not a Pretty Picture" are potent. The film deals with rape- not only that ...

The full list can be found here:  My Favorite Films of 2023 | Dallas Film Now. , which has basically transported the more professional writi...

11. The Mind Benders (1963) -  Generally regarded as one of the first true paranoid thrillers, John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian...

  Killers of the Flower Moon Scorsese's latest is a corrosive epic that clearly reveals its shades of morality for everyone involved wit...

  Passages It'd be misleading to read Ira Sachs' latest effort, "Passages", through the eyes of its amorous, confused, and...

For two nights in a row, I exited a movie theater supremely disappointed in the latest incarnations of two franchises whose history has give...

Ringo Lam's "Undeclared War" had me from its stunningly violent open in which a baptism ambush leads into hand grenades and he...

 Sanctuary The twisted beauty of Zachary Wigon's "Sanctuary" is that it's a film of two people, sitting in a room and talk...

Joyland There's a scene in the middle of Saim Sadiq's ironically titled "Joyland" that sees Haider (Ali Junejo) save the l...

Dominik Graf's "Bitter Innocence" twists about halfway through from a corporate thriller to a sweet love story borne out of th...

Marlowe   Walking the fine (but successful) line between noir pastiche and its own brutal re-imagining of young Hollywood corruption, the ne...

Even though I admire the toughness of Robert Siodmak's perennial film noirs, "The Killers" (1946) and "Criss Cross" ...

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

Generally regarded as one of the first true paranoid thrillers, John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" dealt with the...

As a doom laden masterpiece where a whisper can be deadly or the nod of a head betrays friendship, Jean Pierre Melville's  "Army of...