TIFF 2018: ‘Vox Lux’
Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux is a horror movie about the link between hedonism and explosive violence in the 21st century. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.
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‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ Is All Party, Not Much Hangover
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again offers a silly, sad, apolitical and ultimately joyful look at love, loss, and embracing the future.
“Break Your Own Dreams”: Ebersole & Hughes on ‘Mansfield 66/67’
Directors P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes delight in the slippery nature of truth in their documentary filmmaking. Like Jayne Mansfield herself, the moment you think you can pin them down, they’ve already danced away to another possibility.
‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Season 3’ Gives a Bruising without Feeling
The show is called Crazy Ex-Girlfriend largely because it spends time dismantling the structure that finds it easier to write women off as "crazy" than to offer them help or understanding.
The Rest Is Silence: Why 1967’s Tribal Rock Musical ‘Hair’ Resonates in These Times
Americans may have been “letting the sunshine in” for the past 50 years, but now the burning sensation is out of control. Revisiting Hair serves as a salve.
America Needs Willy Wonka Now More Than Ever
Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka embodies all the qualities America seeks in a leader these days.
Boston Underground Film Festival 2016: ‘The Lure’
There's no denying the worthiness of The Lure's experimental qualities, but its characters get drowned in the music and never really find their way out.
Sara Bareilles: What’s Inside: Songs from Waitress
Fans of Sara Bareilles will want more than a slice of her in What's Inside: Song from Waitress, a more than fair record from the talented musician.
‘Chi-Raq’ Is Spike Lee’s Call to Consciousness
Chi-Raq draws from current headlines, hip-hop lyrics, Aristophanes, and Spike Lee’s prior films to forge a vibrant, propulsive saga of fury and hope.
‘All That Jazz’ Is Bob Fosse’s Cinematic Self-Flagellation
All That Jazz, the excellent, entertaining, and accurate bio-pic of Bob Fosse’s life and foretold death is his cinematic self-flagellation.