There’s also a sense that the film knows it’s critic-proof. The indulgence is off the charts. It does everything in its long-form-infected…

Gifted nonfiction filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw have made a specialty of documenting tradition-bound practices rooted in the soil. In The Truffle Hunters,…

When Paul Schrader’s new moral drama The Basics of Philosophy begins, we are on a fictional college campus where John (Jack Huston),…