Articles by James Luscombe

The Big Kahuna

John Swanbeck

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Kevin Spacey does all of his acting without changing the blase expression on his face. He exudes such unshakable confidence, he always look...

You Can Count On Me Kenneth Lonergan

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

On a rainy, but otherwise ordinary evening, adolescent siblings Samantha and Terry Prescott find out that their parents have died in a car...

New Waterford Girl

Allan Moyle

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

There should be a lot of excitement about what New Waterford Girl means for Canadian cinema. Not that it's a work of art (it's a good movie...

The Color of Paradise

Majid Majidi

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

I can't think of any filmmaker who has a more positive view of childhood than Iranian director Majid Majidi. The children in his movies are...

Agnes Varda

Agnes Varda

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

French director Agnes Varda (Vagabond) has been making films since the ‘50s, and her new documentary, The Gleaners and I, is a sly innovati...

Jonathan Glazer

Jonathan Glazer

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Ray Winstone plays Gary, a retired mid-level gangster who would be quite happy to spend the rest of his days tanning by the pool of his mou...

Scarlet Diva Asia Argento

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

This ridiculous, gaudy work of autobiography is the product the self-indulgent young mind of Italian actress (now a writer-director), Asia...

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Every morning, when Leonard (Guy Pearce) wakes up, his mind is a blank slate. In fact, Leonard's short-term memory wipes itself clean every...