“The 100 Best Movies Of The 2010s”

100 movies. How many have you seen? None? A few? Enough? Because let me tell you, that’s a whole lot of movies. Continue reading →

“The Cruelty Of Indifference”

I nearly wrote my fingers to death typing the title of this movie for this article, so I damn well expect your clicks in exchange for my writerly suffering. Continue reading →

“The 10 Best Documentaries of 2018”

Here we are, gang: Year end time. Time for the year to end. Time for the lists. Time for critics to tell you all what is best in this year that is ending. Yadda. I wrote about the new Frederick Wiseman film. You probably didn’t know a new Frederick Wiseman film even came out this year, did … Continue reading →

“The Director of ‘Bisbee ’17’ on Making the Year’s Most Daring, Revelatory Documentary”

I like a good, standardized talking head doc that’s lean, simple, but knows how to tell a nonfiction story through primary sources and such as that. But I like creative, nonstandard docs that feel more like art than journalism, and that’d be Robert Greene‘s Bisbee ’17, which you may recall I wrote about last month.  Bisbee ’17 … Continue reading →

Review: Bisbee ’17, 2018, dir. Robert Greene

Upfront: I dug Kate Plays Christine, documentary filmmaker Robert Greene’s last movie, but I am floored, still, by Bisbee ’17, his latest, and I saw it over two weeks ago. Maybe that makes me…I don’t know, simple? I think Kate Plays Christine hangs around the edges of fast comprehension. It’s elusive. I like an elusive film, and I’m … Continue reading →