Friday, September 28, 2018

BFI: Directors Who've Made Five Decades of Masterpieces


    For BFI, I was asked to choose a director who I thought had made five masterpieces in five different decades. Easy: Martin Scorsese. You can find what I had to say near the bottom of this piece. 

MUBI Notebook: The Old Man & The Gun (Toronto Review)


    In time for the US release of David Lowery's The Old Man & The Gun, starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, I reviewed the film over at MUBI Notebook.

Sight & Sound Online: Her Smell (Toronto Review)



  Out of this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I wrote a first-look review of Alex Ross Perry's new film Her Smell for Sight & Sound. It stars Elisabeth Moss as a free-falling lead singer of a girl punk band, and I liked it a lot! 

Monday, September 3, 2018

Little White Lies: Yardie (Review)



In time for its release, I reviewed Idris Elba's lukewarm directorial debut, Yardie, for Little White Lies. See what I thought here. 

MUBI Notebook: The Shapeshifting Beauty of Alain Delon





In time for a retrospective at NYC's QUAD Cinema, I wrote about the career of the legendary Alain Delon for MUBI Notebook. Check it out here.