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Author: Bryan Loomis How do you approach subject matter like the systematic abuse and murder of natives at St. Joseph’s Mission...

Author: Bryan Loomis This is a story that deserves to be told with restraint and care, and Sing Sing delivers in that regard. The choice...

Author: Bryan Loomis A great documentary starts with a great subject - it’d be pretty hard to take this subject and make a film that...

Author: Bryan Loomis Kneecap is a real jolt of energy. This starts with Kneecap’s music, which is featured throughout the film and is...

Author: Bryan Loomis A Complete Unknown shows us a Bob Dylan with his rough edges sanded off. Dylan was a provocateur in this time...

Heretic is more interested in the ways that we exchange ideas with each other than the ideas themselves. Both sides of its equation are...

Author: Bryan Loomis The Brutalist is over three and a half hours long, with an intermission. It’s shot on VistaVision, a film format...

Author: Bryan Loomis Equinox Flower is a movie that is not timeless. That isn’t a fault, necessarily - it was made for a certain time and...

Author: Bryan Loomis Maborosi is a remarkably assured debut film with a deft touch about almost everything it does. Long stretches pass...

Author: Bryan Loomis If you were to try to map this to a three act structure (which like, why even try) I think you’d have to say the...

Author: Bryan Loomis Confidence is a hell of a drug. That's the core of the premise of A Different Man. Edward has facial tumors and no...

Author: Bryan Loomis When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is a stunning film about the work conditions and social pressures that a bar hostess...

Author: Bryan Loomis I'm lost. Such is the human condition. I love a late career masterpiece, and Kurosawa's is one of the very best....

Author: Bryan Loomis The Katakuris purchase an inn in a scenic area hoping that development and guests will follow. This is a pretty...

Author: Bryan Loomis Chizuko’s Younger Sister is a coming of age movie where grief casts a long shadow. Mika is approaching the age that...

Author: Bryan Loomis There’s a moment about halfway through Tokyo Sonata where it lost me, and then it got me back again. There’s a time...

Author: Bryan Loomis Don't Look Up was a terrible movie, but one of the things it attempted is actually among the most appealing tools of...

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu treats the Nosferatu story as IP with no desire to adapt or understand what makes the source work. It's just...