“There’s a wonderfully enveloping atmosphere of doom in The Long Voyage Home, with the fog that drapes the sets feeling like a death shroud. O’Neill’s plays were minimalist affairs on nearly empty stages, and Ford finds a fascinating balance between the cramped, close-quarter scenes below deck and a boisterous, big-canvas action picture upstairs.” – Crooked Marquee, 01/06/2023

“This manic mix of earnest immigrant family drama, science-fiction silliness, middle-aged romance and interdimensional kung fu cites so many influences and is so full of allusions the movie might as well come with an index, which is why the series is something Hinkle has had in mind since he first saw Everything Everywhere during its initial run back in April.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 12/21/2022

“It’s tempting to read the bishop’s cold quarters and the Ekdahls’ happy home as two sides of Bergman’s soul vying for custody of his alter-ego, Alexander. The final reels upend Strindberg’s ‘flimsy framework of reality,’ slipping into surreal sleight of hand as this battle of love and libertinism versus religious self-abnegation wakes the ghosts. They’ve been waiting.” – Crooked Marquee, 12/16/2022

“A portrait of the artist as a little shit, Francois Truffaut’s debut feature The 400 Blows is a bracingly unsentimental look back at the director’s juvenile delinquent days. The kid was quite a handful. As far as great filmmakers’ fictionalized childhood stand-ins go, Antoine Doniel would probably steal Sammy Fabelman’s lunch money and stuff him in a locker.” – Crooked Marquee, 12/09/2022

“There’s a kamikaze quality to History Is Made At Night, a breathless, anything-can-happen flood of events that mirrors the headlong feeling of falling in love for the first time. The preposterous plot follows an unassailable emotional logic, so what sounds insane in synopsis seems perfectly reasonable onscreen, like a love story that starts with a phony kidnapping.” – Crooked Marquee, 12/02/2022

“Moreau wanders the Paris streets at night, abandoned and alone. Malle and cinematographer Henri Decaë shot these scenes with their camera in a baby carriage, the scandalously makeup-free star illuminated only by the lights of the city surrounding her. Quietly revolutionary, it’s one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful passages in any movie of its era.” – Crooked Marquee, 11/18/2022

“It is the month when we give thanks for leggy, duplicitous dames and doomed private dicks played for patsies. November is Noirvember, celebrating Hollywood’s hard-boiled fools for love and the frisky femme fatales that are their undoing, bringing back the best in cynical thrillers with bungled murder plots, bummer endings and sardonic voice-over narrations.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 11/04/2022

“The Outfit has been assembled with an unfussy expertise that seemed like no great shakes to film critics 49 years ago, but feels like a lost art today. Duvall is coiled like a cobra while big teddy bear Baker is expansive and gregarious. The latter basically steals the picture, lending considerable, cherubic warmth to the sometimes too-cool proceedings.” – Crooked Marquee, 11/04/2022

“Alan Parker’s scandalous supernatural thriller Angel Heart is scary as hell but also something of a hoot, with a mordant sense of humor and some of the genre’s greatest character names. The crooner is called Johnny Favorite, De Niro plays Louis Cyphre and there’s a jazz musician named Toots Sweet. Even the title turns out to be a terrible pun.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/24/2022

“Rewritten by director Amy Holden Jones, the resulting picture is a fiendishly funny parody played completely straight. So straight that a lot of dismissive critics confused it with the genuine article. But then again, as a horny pubescent I rented the movie on VHS more than once for obvious reasons, and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t in on the joke, either.” – Crooked Marquee, 10/21/2022