Articles by James Luscombe

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  Body Shots

  Michael Cristofer

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Director Michael Cristofer's last film was Gia, in which he collaborated with novelist Jay McInerney, and that's an instructive connection...

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  Sweet and Lowdown

  Woody Allen

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Over the years, Woody Allen has developed such an uncanny ease with storytelling and narrative structure that at this point in his career h...

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  In A Savage Land

  Bill Bennett

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  The new Australian drama "In a Savage Land" does quite a good job of portraying the native tribes of Papua New Guinea in convincing, natura...

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  A Girl Is A Girl

  Reginald Harkema

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Imagine "High Fidelity" as directed by Jean Luc Godard and you've basically got the gist of "A Girl is a Girl." First-time writer/director...

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  Me, Myself & Irene

  Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  The Farrelly brothers are still the most liberating comic minds in the movies today. They create this guilt-free universe in which it's oka...

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  Butterfly

  Jose Luis Cuerda

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  You'd think that the turbulent beginnings of the Spanish civil war would inspire a gripping, passionate film, but in the case of Butterfly,...

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  The Idiots

  Lars von Trier

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Lars von Trier considers The Idiots to be his greatest film. Genius though he is, I have to disagree with him in his assessment of this, th...

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  Road Trip

  Todd Phillips

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  In the new gross-out college comedy, Road Trip, four buddies pile into a car with the intention of driving from Ithaca, New York to Austin,...