CATHEDRAL CEILINGS: Architecture mirrors life in La Sapienza City Paper grade: B The characters in Eugène Green’s fifth feature often stand in the center of his symmetrical frames and address the camera directly, as if speaking to, or at least…
If When Marnie Was There is truly the last movie created by Japan’s Studio Ghibli, whose animation staff has been on hiatus since last year, then it’s a bittersweet finale perhaps appropriately for a company that has produced so…
City Paper grade: B- Brad Bird’s second live-action feature is a movie of ideas. The ideas are great; the movie is not. The premise has promise: What if the world’s fairs were not product expos but auditions, a means of…
Dan Blaushild Its finally summertime, so you know what that means you will soon be annoyed or held up in traffic by people in the city on a Segway tour. Where are they going? (Somewhere touristy.) Why did they…
City Paper grade: C+ A fashion shoot in search of a film, Thomas Vinterberg’s take on Thomas Hardy is stunning to look at but a chore to watch. As adapted by David Nicholls, who also transferred Dickens’ Great Expectations…
City Paper grade: B+ The first feature by A Separation and The Past‘s Asghar Farhadi has taken six years to win Stateside release, and in some ways, that’s a good thing. Having been well versed in Farhadi’s deftness at burying…
City Paper grade: A- If youve ever had doubts about Kristen Stewart as a serious actress, Olivier Assayas Clouds of Sils Maria should put them to rest once and for all. (Also, you have always been wrong.) As Valentine, the…
City Paper grade: B- Anthology films are uneven ranks just below water is wet in the great book of redundancies, so lets skip past how the six parts of Damián Szifróns feature an Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film…
City Paper grade: B+ Richard LaGravenese’s adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s musical isn’t a great movie. In some ways, it’s a terrible one: awkwardly staged, badly shot (some scenes look as if they might have been captured on an old-school…
City Paper grade: B+ Talya Lavie?s first feature, about life in the Israel Defense Forces, is a millennial ?M*A*S*H, a deadpan comedy with dark undercurrents that snatch you into the depths without warning. At first, Zohar (Dana Ivgy) and Daffi…
