Articles by Scott A. Gray

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  For No Good Reason

  Charlie Paul

  PUBLISHED May 15, 2014

  When celebrities get together to celebrate one of their own, it can often be a self-congratulatory softball fest. Simply admiring the work...

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  Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

  Laurent Cantet

  PUBLISHED May 15, 2014

  Seeking empowerment, a victim half-blinded by hate will justify emulating the debasing acts of her or his oppressor. The pronoun is unquest...

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  Only Lovers Left Alive

  Jim Jarmusch

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2014

  Known for a preoccupation with projecting an image of the coolly detached, deep-thinking artiste, Jim Jarmusch has managed to effectively y...

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  A Field in England

  Ben Wheatley

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2014

  For his latest film, gutsy British director Ben Wheatley has made a gritty, grimy, experimental period piece that feels like hyper-surreal...

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  Like Father, Like Son

  Hirokazu Kore-eda

  PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2014

  In the hands of an adept filmmaker, a familiar story can address facets of the human condition in a way that uncovers fresh insights. Laude...

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  Tim's Vermeer

  Teller

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2014

  A natural fit for his joke-y brand of demystifying the incredible, one half of the bane of the stage magicians' community, Penn and Teller,...

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  Rhymes For Young Ghouls

  Jeff Barnaby

  PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2014

  Exhibiting a vivid eye for potent imagery and a striking sense of the downtrodden vitriol characterizing this slice of historically-derived...

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  Devil's Knot

  Atom Egoyan

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2014

  Revisiting the sense of anger, loss and confusion in a small-town after a tragedy involving the deaths of children, Atom Egoyan is on famil...