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The other day my roommates were watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind downstairs. It brought me back to thinking about this movie, which hasn’t been in my periphery for quite some time. As I passed by the T.V., I said, “Damn, this movie is so sad,” and my roommate responded with “Oh shit, is the ending sad?” The one girl on the couch who already watched the film just looked at me as we both…

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Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow tested me in a lot of ways. To be able to just sit and let the story on screen unfold at a pace more concerned with detail than moving the plot is not something I’m used to. Many call First Cow peaceful, but for me, it was more akin to restless. Finding peace is a learned skill, carved from time and patience.

First Cow tells the story of former baker Cookie Figowitz…

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I’d like to make this analogy: Good Time to Uncut Gems is The Squid and the Whale to Marriage Story. Although many critics would say otherwise, I think Good Time and The Squid and the Whale are better films than their more successful predecessors. While Noah Baumbach excels at painting the dynamic of a dysfunctional family, the Safdie brothers excel at building adrenaline junky characters who have a blindspot for how their reckless actions might affect…

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The irony in The Painter and the Thief is that while the title of this documentary categorizes one protagonist as a painter and the other a thief, the film actually paints two holistic pictures of these characters, whose labels as “painter” and “thief” do not define them at all.

In 2015, Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova received a call informing her that two of her most famous paintings, Chloe & Emma (left) and Swan Song (right), had…