“Altman’s California Split and Bogdanovich’s Saint Jack have long dwelled in the back alleys of their directors’ filmographies, movies more written about than seen, boasting an ardent band of acolytes. In a way this seems somehow appropriate, as they’re modestly scaled pictures about men living on the margins, hustlers scraping by from score to score.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/15/2020
“I developed a weird, contrarian’s affection for the ugliness of this movie. Hardy could so easily be a heartthrob but instead he’s a Mickey Rourke waiting to happen, and in Capone he’s finally found a role that allows him to bleat incoherently like an addled Popeye the Sailor Man while noisily shitting his pants onscreen not once, but twice.” – North Shore Movies, 05/15/2020
“But life doesn’t really work that way, and most friendships don’t end so much as they just fade away. As you get older people disappear from your life so gradually sometimes you don’t even notice until they’re gone, and writer-director Dan Sallitt’s Fourteen is a movie about a close friendship’s slow dissolve over years that seem to pass in a blink.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/14/2020
“Too square to be critical favorites and too modest to make much of a ruckus otherwise, Danny Collins and Ricki And The Flash are wistfully funny movies about taking your last chance to fix what’s broken in the rearview, featuring deliciously oversized star turns by two of our finest. There were better films I saw that year but few I’ve returned to as often.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/08/2020
“This is a film about how a tiny gesture can make a huge difference to people during a difficult time, and how the most minuscule things sometimes mean the world. Delicately directed by the young filmmaker Andrew Ahn, it’s a movie about neighbors that’s also about what it means to be a neighbor. And it somehow does all of this without ever raising its voice.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/07/2020
“But whenever the gore threatens to overwhelm the story, Barnaby tosses in a savvy little historical riff or a knowing reference, like when a grieving white dad tries to bring his daughter’s infected blanket onto the reservation. Blood Quantum is smart genre filmmaking with a lot on its mind, though probably not the most reassuring movie to watch when you’re quarantined.” – North Shore Movies, 05/07/2020
“Both movies are preoccupied with the mysteries of marriage and infidelity, exploring the unpredictable desires of men and women. They’re films from a pre-franchise era when such subjects were deemed worthy of serious, big-screen consideration. They’re also from a time when if people went to a subtitled movie, they expected to see a little skin.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/01/2020
“A nifty overview as to why everything is terrible, it’s a brilliantly assembled, blood-boiling examination of the past 100 years in wealth inequality that, viewed during our current disaster, feels like the autopsy of a broken system. The film has a knack for making tricky economic concepts accessible to all, even dummies like me who got a D in algebra.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/30/2020
”Yauch is touchingly missed by his bandmates and his irreverent energy is sorely missed by the film. It’s sweet, well-meaning and lacking any of the oddball invention we’ve come to expect from their endeavors. This is a pleasant chat with a couple of the nicest dads in your neighborhood, but I kept waiting for someone to bust out the Brass Monkey.” – North Shore Movies, 04/30/2020
“Shanley’s night sky needs to appear larger than life to us because Joe’s seeing it as if for the very first time, the same way Hertzfeldt’s Bill looks at those dust mites or his brilliant bathmats. These are things I try to remember while I’m out taking my walks and trying to beat back my own brain clouds, especially on such a beautiful day.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/24/2020
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