Articles by James Luscombe
Palindromes Todd Solondz 3
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Palindromes is Todd Solondz's most difficult movie yet. It's a Little Red Riding Hood story that's as formally rigorous as a Godard film, a...
Imaginary Heroes Dan Harris 3
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Imaginary Heroes unfolds like a grocery list of Oscar-baiting dramatics. Let's see, there's a suicide, a closeted gay teenager, an extramar...
Sideways Alexander Payne 2
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Alexander Payne is the poet laureate of male self-delusion. His characters, from Mr. McAllister in Election to Jack Nicholson's Schmidt, ar...
5 X 2 Francois Ozon
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Francois Ozon calls 5 x 2 his version of Scenes from a Marriage, and while his film is quite polished and well-written, his self-aggrandisi...
Elephant Van Sant
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Elephant, the new film by Gus Van Sant, is spare and austere, full of long tracking shots of the mundane comings and goings of a series of...
Problem With Fear Y Burns
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Emily Hampshire's performance in A Problem with Fear is a stunner as funny, cartoon-ish and wholly original as Mira Sorvino's star-making...
Bruno Barreto
Bruno Barreto
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
View from the Top is an "inspirational-satiric-romantic-comedy," manipulative and unfunny from start to finish, but it has the strangest pe...
Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Todd Haynes's film Safe was probably the best American film of the 90s, and his long-awaited new film, Far From Heaven is in the same leag...
