• Bacurau

    Capsule Reviews: March 2020 Limited Releases

    Bacurau Genre-bending thriller about a tiny village in Brazil that suddenly begins to experience strange phenomena following the death of its elderly matriarch. Shortly after the funeral, residents of Bacurau notice that their village has vanished from the map. Meanwhile, the water truck arrives in town with a bullet hole ...
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    Guy Ritchie has always been, if anything, a very stylish director. He launched his career with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, two very idiosyncratic films that wielded their surprising lowlife vulgarity as a kind of cinematic street art; these early films established Ritchie as an auteur with ...
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    As the glut of summer sequels begin screening this month, a sense of dread inevitably falls upon the high-minded adult filmgoer. Not to say that an Iron Man or a Star Trek or a Hangover doesn’t have its pleasures, but these films do serve as a reminder that we’re in ...