A Doll’s House
Alex Garland’s first movie as a director is Ex Machina, but he has been around the film business a long time. After his novel...
Lie to Me
You may be surprised to learn that True Story is only the second serious collaboration between James Franco and Jonah Hill, two actors who...
Hipster Replacement
I’m so glad Noah Baumbach has lightened up. He spent the back half of the 2000s making a trio of dramedies — The Squid...
Dear John Letter
In this current phase of Al Pacino’s career, when he’s playing broken-down old men with no one to blame but themselves for being broken...
Brett Bentman Goes Big
Five months ago, Fort Worth Weekly mentioned Brett Bentman in a feature story about local filmmakers (“Grappling With the Glitz Machine,” Nov. 5). At...
Das Bild
The story of how the Nazis looted Europe’s storehouses of art masterpieces is a compelling one, whose salient details only came to light within...
Tag, You’re It
Ever since It Follows debuted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, horror fans haven’t been able to stop talking about it. Maybe you were...
Throw Away the Key
The same week that It Follows (see: above review) treats rape as a horrifying thing, we have Get Hard, which thinks rape is hilarious,...
Out of Faction
Example No. 54,903,812 of the movie industry’s glass ceiling: While Hollywood is coming around at a snail’s pace to the idea that a fantasy-adventure...
Death on the Wheel
I can’t get enough of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays” like Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, and Cymbeline, and I’m always eager to see...
