'Saw' Revisited
Back in 2004, I sat stone-faced as a Midnight Madness audience was whipped into a frenzy over the first 'Saw.' Was I missing something?
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In Review: 'Flora and Son,' 'It Lives Inside'
This week's films draw from familiar wells as John Carney returns to the musical formula of 'Once' and 'Begin Again' and a horror film on an Indian spirit reveals American influences.
The Best Films of the Year So Far (* According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part II
The top of the charts offers another wide range of experiences, though three films, including the best of the best, deal sympathetically with women in high-stress situations.
#88 (tie): 'Chungking Express': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Made during the director's downtime on another movie, Wong Kar-wai's 1994 breakthrough captures a Hong Kong filled with characters driven half-mad by love.
In Review: 'A Haunting in Venice,' 'Dumb Money,' 'Cassandro'
Branagh takes on Agatha Christie (again), Craig Gillespie revisits the GameStop stock rush, and Gael Garcia Bernal dons tights and make-up in a Mexican wrestling biopic.
The Best Films of the Year (* According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part I
My annual mid-ish year round-up of acclaimed films I missed includes two dramas about green energy coming to rural Spain and a heartrending doc about Alzheimer's.