day for night

DAY FOR NIGHT (1973)

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, both personal and professional, among his cast and crew.

anomalisa

ANOMALISA (2015)

A man, crippled by the mundanity of his life, experiences something out of the ordinary in this stop-motion animation from Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson...

the club

THE CLUB / EL CLUB (2015)

Recently crowned Best Picture at the Oscars, Spotlight detailed the uncovering of the shocking child sex scandal associated with the Catholic Church. While that...

the lobster

THE LOBSTER (2015)

It has been clear for some time that the leading lights of the ‘weird wave’ of Greek cinema would not be able to remain...

hail, caesar!

HAIL, CAESAR! (2016)

The Coen brothers’ filmography is heavily populated with desks and the men who sit behind them. In the Coens’ universe, desks serve to define...

the walk

THE WALK (2015)

The Walk is by no means perfect. In fact, it’s all too easy to pull apart, if you so desire. The dialogue is very...

spotlight

SPOTLIGHT (2015)

Tom McCarthy’s sober, clear-eyed take on the Boston Catholic Church child abuse scandal, and how the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigative team uncovered the story,...

the big short

THE BIG SHORT (2015)

There’s a point early on in The Big Short, Adam McKay’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s best-selling book about the financial crisis, where a voiceover...

ROOM (2015)

Fans of Emma Donoghue’s achingly beautiful novel Room can breathe a sigh of relief; the critical buzz, four Oscar nominations (including Best Picture, Best...

the revenant

THE REVENANT (2015)

Revenge is one of cinema’s most enduring themes, and with good reason. There’s something enormously satisfying about not only the payoff to a good vengeance...

CREED (2015)

Predictability tends to be seen as damaging to a film; but it’s not a hard-and-fast rule. Familiarity deserves to have its praises sung, because when...