Review: Moonrise Kingdom
By Kristin M. Jones
(Wes Anderson, U.S., 2012)
The piercing love story at the heart of Wes Anderson's latest, a paint-tube-colorful tale of childhood yearning
By Kristin M. Jones
(Wes Anderson, U.S., 2012)
The piercing love story at the heart of Wes Anderson's latest, a paint-tube-colorful tale of childhood yearning
By Olaf Möller
Back from the Brink
The festival makes a cautious comeback after taking a beating
By Ulrike Sieglohr
The sublime, intensely stylized “total cinema” of Werner Schroeter, the flamboyant dandy who was the New German cinema’s best-kept secret
A list of the best films you'll never see, L through Z
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Juliette Binoche and Edgar Ramirez as a lusty, ludicrous couple
Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez returns to the big screen with little fanfare and lazy misogyny
By Roger Greenspun
From the January/February 1974 issue
In the wake of the abrupt departures of J. Hoberman from the Village Voice and David Thompson from The Guardian, we take a look back at the halcyon days of print criticism... which turn out not to be that great.
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