Articles by James Luscombe

Lantana

Ray Lawrence

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Although "Lantana" isn't technically a thriller, it constantly waxes in that direction. There's the ominous opening shot of a woman's corps...

Tsai Ming-Liang

Tsai Ming-Liang

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Over the past decade or so, Taiwan's Tsai Ming-liang has made films that, like no one else since Antonioni, seem to define what it is to be...

Amy Heckerling/Richard Linklater

Amy Heckerling/Richard Linklater

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Animated like an Impressionist painting that flows and undulates like a river, Richard Linklater's "Waking Life" is a beautiful, episodic c...

Un Crabe Dans La Tete Andre Turpin

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

If it's an aspect of the Canadian character to try to be all things to all people, to shy away from being judged, to want to be liked at th...

Twin Falls Idaho

Michael Polish

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

There's a lot about this movie that is too studied and over-determined. For starters, it's called Twin Falls Idaho, and it's about conjoine...

The Muse

Albert Brooks

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

I think Albert Brooks (Modern Romance, Lost in America) is one of the sharpest comic talents in America, but I don't think I'd use The Muse...

The Acid House

Paul McGuigan

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

The Acid House hits you like a head-butt from a soccer hooligan. The screenplay is by Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), based on three of his s...

That's the Way I Like It

Glen Goei

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

That's the Way I Like It (formerly titled Don't Call Me John Travolta!) shows us the process of cultural cross-pollination in Singapore as...