Steven Spielberg: Always

Considering what an omnipresent force Steven Spielberg has been in the cinema since he broke through with Jaws in 1975, the relative anonym...

Until the Light Takes Us

On the surface, Until the Light Takes Us seems a film tailor-made for people like me: curious about the Norwegian black metal scene that ca...

The Intruder

Claire Denis' The Intruder takes the director's sensual minimalism to its extremity, carving an entire film out of her tactile, ell...

Steven Spielberg: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

After the garish, overly frenetic and borderline offensive Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , Spielberg tried to make amends by producin...

Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone might be compared to Deliverance , what with its hellish look into the America neglected by everyone fortunate enough to ...

Monterey Pop

D.A. Pennebaker, having already followed Bob Dylan through the artist's whirlwind reinvention (complete with Dylan's ironic take on ...

White Material

White Material is what Apocalypse Now might have been like if it were entirely from the perspective from the French plantation owners. The...