Daily Archives: March 24, 2022

An Italian period piece/fantasy of romance, treasure, pistols and crabs. This one opens April 15. Oscilloscope has “The Tale of King Crab,” and you know how I feel about them.

A mushroom expert bonds with a runaway he meets in the woods collecting mushrooms in “The Issue with Elvis,” a milder-than-mild-mannered family drama set in wild, wonderful West Virginia. The drama is low-key/low-stakes, the pace is leisurely and the dialogue … Continue reading →

Film and the culture it reflects tends towards gross oversimplifications. When a terrible crime happens, we want it explained. We want to know what “triggered” this person, what made them “finally snap.” The truth is always muddier, more complicated. Sometimes, … Continue reading →

The latest film from the writer director of “A Prophet,” “Rust and Bone” and “The Sisters Brothers” is a menage a quatre romance. This one, titled “Les Olympiades” in France, opens on North America April 15.

Downbeat, infuriating, reluctant to give up its mystery and illogical and anticlimactic by its finale, “Compartment No. 6” parks us in a Russian train for a long journey from Moscow to Murmansk with two intriguingly mismatched traveling companions. It might … Continue reading →