Film Review—”Materialists”
If you’re caught up in Materialists’ debate about Lucy’s salary and lifestyle, you’re falling for the film’s trap.
In “Bridget Jones 4”, Letting Go Isn’t the Same as Letting It Go.
Mad About the Boy has no business being as good as it is; it turns out, when films are rooted in character and not nostalgia, the results are pretty good.
In “Sinners,” Sin isn’t a Crime, it’s a Wound.
The eponymous sins don’t refer to an evil or material vices, but the centuries-old suffering that created the need to commit them.
In the Age of Distraction, Film Needs Us to Sit Still.
Filmmakers watering down their film’s messages demonstrates a lack of trust in the audience. But what is our role as an audience in the break in that trust?
Documentary Filmmaking Centers Empathy. So Should Our Critique.
Why as documentary film viewers are we so incapable of empathy? We have plenty to extend towards participants and crew, but we seem so unwilling to exercise it as film critics and viewers.