The Big Screen

Short Takes: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

November 6, 2019

By blending the very serious with the childlike, Heller’s film locates real feeling in what could easily have been a run-of-the-mill tearjerker

The Big Screen: Motherless Brooklyn

By Mark Asch

November 5, 2019

Edward Norton’s film is not just nostalgic for the New York City it recreates, but fixated on the moment of its loss

Short Takes: Mister America

By Nicolas Rapold

October 9, 2019

Tim Heidecker’s reliably funny blowhard character takes the next logical step in self-delusion: political candidacy

Short Takes: Midnight Traveler

By Kelli Weston

September 24, 2019

Hassan Fazili’s poetic account of his family’s desperate search for asylum is cinema as political act

The Big Screen: Monos

By Devika Girish

September 11, 2019

Although director Alejandro Landes’s script keeps context to an evocative minimum, the shadow of Colombia’s tentatively concluded civil conflict is unmistakable

The Big Screen: Genesis

By Abby Sun

August 29, 2019

The actual effect of watching Genesis is a bit like whiplash, as the film switches between three different storylines

The Big Screen: Tigers Are Not Afraid

By Chloe Lizotte

August 29, 2019

Unsentimental resilience makes storytelling both a weapon and a shield for the orphaned children in Issa López’s blend of horror and magical realism

The Big Screen: Aquarela

By Fatima Naqvi

August 15, 2019

In Victor Kossakovsky’s masterful essay film, water in all its forms provides the scale against which human life is to be measured

The Big Screen: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

By Michael Koresky

August 14, 2019

In his latest, Richard Linklater confronts the gap between youthful expectation and the specter of failure

The Big Screen: The Nightingale

By Nathan Lee

August 1, 2019

Jennifer Kent is a genuine filmmaker of ideas, but The Nightingale is clipped by problems of form