Any faults to be found in Parallel Mothers are relatively minor gripes, of course. Pedro Almodóvar doesn’t make bad films, and this is still a quite good one. The film will have a special screening on Monday at the Kan-Kan Cinema & Brasserie in Indianapolis.
"Hereditary" — Ari Aster's breakout 2018 film — gets a special IMAX re-release.
By the end, "Pain & Glory" is worthwhile because, well, it’s an Almodóvar film. All of his trademarks are here, but it’s also not the quintessential career retrospective he deserves. The film screens at the Kan-Kan Cinema & Brasserie in Indianapolis on Monday.
In terms of pure inventiveness, "Hundreds of Beavers" feels cut from the same cloth as "Eraserhead," "The Evil Dead" and "Donnie Darko." It’s an uncompromised work from a supremely talented new voice in director / co-writer Mike Cheslik, and that’s something always worth supporting.
Formally ambitious and refreshingly simple in its pleasures, "Late Night with the Devil" features great actors giving delightful performances and goopy, gross-out scares.
Opening in wide release Friday, writer-director Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is an odd mix of sentimental family melodrama and cutting racial satire — veering from the scathing tirades of Spike Lee’s Bamboozled one moment to a syrupy Tyler Perry tearjerker the next.… continue
Since his 2009 directorial debut, Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos has pushed the limits of just how much human misery a comedy can withstand.… continue
One of the best movies writer-director Eli Roth ever made was only 3 minutes long.… continue
For most of his life, Evan Dossey generally avoided horror films.… continue
Too self-serious to be a gory romp and too generic and grim to offer thrills.
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