Tag: september 2026
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‘The Killing Fields’ Disrupts the White-Savior Trope
Pulling from the experiences of a pair of journalists covering the Khmer Rouge regime’s atrocities, Roland Joffé’s 1984 drama has some emotional limitations and character-based problems but is impressively unwilling to make its real-world horrors more palatable.
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‘Primetime’ is a Lurid Showbiz Comedy
Plus: ‘Chronovisor’ is among the year’s most engrossing thrillers. (For 425)
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‘Resident Evil’ Gets the Job Done
Zach Cregger’s adaptation of the popular Japanese video game — itself already the basis of a lucrative six-part movie franchise — is proficient to a fault.
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‘Our Land’ is a Different Kind of Courtroom Drama
Lucrecia Martel’s first foray into documentary filmmaking uses a much-publicized trial as a conduit to examine her native Argentina’s corrosive colonialist history.
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Short Takes: ‘Practical Magic 2,’ ‘Hope,’ and ‘Late Fame’
For South Sound: New movies from Susanne Bier, Na Hong-jin, and Kent Jones, reviewed.
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‘Urban Cowboy’ is a Country-Fried Cash-in
James Bridges’ handsomely shot 1980 drama is fairly openly indebted to 1977’s ‘Saturday Night Fever.’
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Memory and Family Are Not to Be Trusted in ‘Romería’
Now playing on The Criterion Channel, Carla Simón’s elegant new movie fictionalizes her genealogical history with productive reticence.
