With Paper Tiger, the latest family drama from James Gray — like its spiritual predecessor Armageddon Time — we are again transported back to Queens in the 1980s in New York City. Whereas that coming of age story reflected on teens getting into trouble while cutting class, stumbling into the privileges of race and the responsibilities of family legacy, the stakes here are considerably higher and the undercurrents even darker.
Pride, Prejudice, and Psychopathy
Set in 1858, Victorian Psycho follows Winifred, a governess hired by the privileged and awful Pounds family to educate their children, Andrew and Drusilla, at their country estate, Ensor House. She has a resume that’s impressive on paper, but it omits the carnage previously left in her wake. Holding on to a dangerous secret, her arrival at Ensor House does little to improve her behavior.
Seattle Film Critics spotlight the best of the Pacific Northwest this weekend at SIFF
As the leaves on the trees start to turn warmer colors, the air grows colder, and the nights dim darker, movie season …
Robin Hood for Dummies
How to Rob a Bank concerns a crew of charismatic Gen-Z and millennial thieves who turn their exploits into easily digestible YouTube content, to the delight of millions. Their channel is called “Who’s Hungry?” They wear wolf masks.
A Godzilla Minus Zero Roundtable
Tony, Josh and Morgen discuss the newest installment in the Godzilla Minus series. The good, the bad and the badass.
A painful past and present collide in La Bola Negra
There’s no way to sum up this film in a simple paragraph or two, but I’ll do my best to hit the high points. There are three stories, all set in Spain, centuries apart, unfolding simultaneously.
A “black ball” take on La Bola Negra
A traipse through a century of Spanish history as seen through a few gay icons, La Bola Negra is a very fashionable film, at once a conscious entry in contemporary cinema’s ongoing fixation with the archive and a throwback to Miramax Oscar Bait, characterized not inaccurately as The Hours for Federico Garcia Lorca.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a father-son time machine fifty years in the making.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026 | USA | 100 minutes | Conceived and shot by William Greaves, Directed by David …
Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, a Quiet, Affecting Glance at Post-Nazi Germany
World War II has just ended, and sweeping landscapes of a crumbling German town fill the opening sequence. What follows is an intimate re-imagining of the Mann family’s experience post-war with the patriarch Thomas (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erica (Sandra Hüller) embarking on a sort of literary tour of the country to boost national morale perhaps? But also maybe to boost his ego and boast patriotism after having escaped to the US for many years to avoid the destruction that had consumed his homeland.
Assassination Vacation
After a long career destabilizing governments at home and abroad, CIA operative Chris Carlisle (John Malkovich) has received a terminal cancer diagnosis and knows he has fewer days ahead than behind. The 1973 coup that ousted democratically elected Marxist Salvador Allende and installed the ruthless, CIA-backed Augusto Pinochet is going to be Carlisle’s swan song. He’s been the Leonard Zelig of political assassinations for over a generation, but not even Kissinger lived forever.