Articles by James Luscombe

Steven Shainberg

Steven Shainberg

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

James Spader plays lawyer E. Edward Gray. He sits on a couch with his secretary, Lee (Maggie Gyllenhaal), lecturing her about her penchant...

Carlos Reygadas

Carlos Reygadas

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

A nameless man wanders across the craggy Mexican landscape. He comes across a little boy and who is assisting a group of hunters. He tells...

Jia Zhangke

Jia Zhangke

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Director Jia Zhang-ke (Platform) may not be a household name, but he's a critical darling, and he ranks up there with the best Asian filmma...

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

An oddly infuriating work from Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien, "Millennium Mambo" follows the story of Vicky (Shu Qi), a beautiful, slumming club...

Eloge De Lamour Jean Luc Godard

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

A new Godard movie is usually an unassailable event for cineastes, so I find that I'm alone in assessing "Eloge de l'amour" as an utterly c...

David Lynch

David Lynch

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

David Lynch's new film, "Mulholland Drive," is a re-assemblage of an ill-fated TV series that he pitched to ABC a couple of years ago. Some...

Misery Harbour

Nils Gaup

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

With more pure suffering per frame than any movie (European or otherwise) I've seen in ages, "Misery Harbour" lives up to its name. Surpris...

Apartment Hunting

Bill Robertson

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

"Apartment Hunting" is a most unfortunate romantic comedy. It's low budget, and it wears its frugality very badly; when it tries for charmi...