It’s not Pedro Almodóvar’s fault that he’s set his own bar so high. He first gained attention as the bad boy of Spanish cinema, then matured with superb, deeply-felt films like All About My Mother and Volver. Julieta may…
There is nothing subtle about the racism and sexism that pervaded our society, especially in the South, during the 1950s and 1960s–so criticizing a movie about that period for being blatant in its treatment of the subject may be…
Inspired by a dying mother whose story idea blossomed into an award-winning book, A Monster Calls is a serious fable about a young hero who, as the movie tells us, is “too old to be a child, too young…