Movies

            For as long as I can remember I’ve always ended the year with a “10 Best & Worst” list. But that was back when I was a film critic and rabid about seeing as many movies as possible during the…
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            Hunt Is a propulsive, action-packed South Korean spy thriller directed and starring Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game).             It begins in Washington D.C. in 1983 during a botched assassination attempt on the South Korean president, whose authoritarian regime has caused student uprisings…
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            By all means, make a reservation to see The Menu, a fiendishly enjoyable dark comedy, smartly directed by Mark Mylod and topped with a fabulously sardonic performance by Ralph Fiennes.             The plot concerns a group of well-heeled epicureans, arriving by…
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            Surprisingly romantic young “cannibals in love” movie from Luca Guadagnini (Call Me by Your Name). Based on a novel by Camille DeAngelis, it stars the charismatic Taylor Russell as Maren, whose father has deserted her because of her “affliction” of…
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            Nocebo is a sinister, slow-burn tale of dark magic and revenge, starring the terrific Eva Green as Christine, an extremely neurotic children’s dress designer living with her successful market strategist husband Felix (Mark Stong) and young daughter Bobs (Billie Gadsdon).…
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            Colin Farrell gives one of the best performances of his career in this heartbreakingly funny and tragically touching new film by Martin McDonagh.              Farrell plays Padraic, a milk farmer who lives on a remote island off the coast of Ireland…
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            A lost hiker stumbles on a shack in the middle of the Smoky Mountains only to find a strange old man in red long johns pointing a shotgun in his face in this tense two-hander directed by Lucky McKee.             Lucky…
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            Dark Glasses is the first film in 10 years from the 82-year-old Italian master of the macabre Dario Argento and is a glorious return to “giallo” thriller, but with surprising tenderness and compassion alongside the gore.             This was a script…
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            Nothing thrills me more than attending the NY Film Festival. I used to hitchhike from Provincetown, Mass. in the 1970s and sleep on the couch of the late, great Cookie Mueller (ironically featured on the Nan Goldin poster for this…
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            When German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder died in 1982, I was reminded of the funeral of another director- Ernst Lubitsch in 1947. Afterwards, Billy Wilder and William Wyler were leaving the burial and Wyler said “Well, no more Lubitsch,” and…
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