The Square is a film about a social experiment which is, in its own odd way, itself a social experiment. Said experiment asks if a panel of Cannes jurists can overlook a film’s glaring structural prob…
Sundance continues uphill climb to nowhere with ‘The Free World,’ ‘Wild’ and ‘Ali and Nino’
If you attend a lot of film festivals, one of the idiosyncratic and geeky pleasures is recognizing weird motifs that unintentionally connect very different films. This year’s Sundance appears to have …
Ally’s Movie Review: Queen of Earth
On a technical, detached and mildly unfun standpoint, I got why people liked Listen up Philip. The writing and delivery of the dialogue was acidic and the performers were strong but I just couldn’t br…
Ally’s Movie Review: Listen Up Philip
Jason Schwartzman stars in the new film Listen Up Philip, directed by Alex Ross Perry, about a writer who decides that pursuing his talent is more important than any form of meaningful relationship. P…