Darkly compelling and brilliantly unreliable, Philip Kaufman’s “I am Thinking of Ending Things” is an imploded kaleidoscope filled with broken shards.
“Undine”: Berlinale 2020 Film Review
In Christian Petzold’s latest bittersweet fairy tale, young Berliner Undine, named after the aquatic creature of myths, has a chance to escape her preordained fate after a faithless man reneges on promises of love. Is true love all she needs to survive?
“The Touch”: Film Review
The past brings up unexpected treasures in Ingmar Bergman’s 1971 “The Touch”.
“Phantom Thread”: Review
A love affair ends dismally, in the elegantly wallpapered breakfast room of a grand London townhouse: a suggestive Belgian iced bun is spurned.
“Beast”: Film Review
A world of dark impulses hides in plain sight in the luminous landscapes of Jersey. A serial killer is about.
“A Simple Favour”: Film Review
A deliciously acid dark comedy thriller, “A Simple Favour” pits beautiful and self-possessed Blake Lively against sweet but steely Anna Kendrick in a battle of the moms that takes a funny, then dark – very dark – turn.
“Thelma”: Film Review
In the stillness of a Norwegian winter, a father and child go hunting. They walk across a frozen lake, towards the woods.