Notebook Reviews: Martin Scorsese’s "Hugo"
Fernando F. CroceThis restless phantasmagoria is fond, melancholy and not quite serene.
Fernando F. Croce
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Notebook Reviews: Samuel Fuller's "House of Bamboo" (1955)
Fernando F. CroceSamuel Fuller in Japan, like tabloid ink sprayed on kakejiku scrolls.
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Notebook Reviews: Rupert Wyatt’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and Joe Cornish’s “Attack the Block”
Fernando F. CroceBlockbuster apes and low-budget aliens in a double-bill of subtext-rich science fiction.
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Notebook Reviews: Evan Glodell’s "Bellflower"
Fernando F. CroceA striking debut suspended between low-key, Sundance relationship drama and hyper-saturated, ’70s-style grindhouser.
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Notebook Reviews: Miranda July's "The Future"
Fernando F. CroceArguably the strangest study of artistic and parental anxiety since Eraserhead.
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Notebook Reviews: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "World on a Wire"
Fernando F. CroceThe sci-fi masterpiece, part “Alphaville”, part Fritz Lang, part “The Matrix”, yet wholly original.
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Notebook Reviews: Denis Villeneuve’s “Polytechnique” and John Carpenter’s “The Ward”
Fernando F. CroceFramed in a close shot, college students go about their business around a Xerox machine when a spray of bullets suddenly rips into the image. Polytechnique, Denis Villeneuve's 2009 fictionalized account
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Notebook Reviews: Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Fernando F. Croce"Visual, therefore visceral," snaps John Malkovich in Transformers: Dark of the Moon as some sort of wacky Michael Bay proxy, a conglomerate martinet who screams at his crew, checks out the leading lady
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Notebook Reviews: Azazel Jacobs’ “Terri”
Fernando F. CroceAzazel Jacobs has an acute eye for houses that, without ever crumbling the low-key naturalism of his narratives, can mutate from mere settings to mysterious visualizations of the characters’ often
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Notebook Reviews: Michael Rowe’s “Leap Year”
Fernando F. CroceTo Laura (Mónica del Carmen), the desolate protagonist of Michael Rowe’s absorbing debut Leap Year, the sight of a neighboring couple cuddling before the TV is a recurring vision of romance
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Notebook Reviews: J.J. Abrams' "Super 8"
Fernando F. CroceNo film this year opens more promisingly and ends more dismally than J.J. Abrams’ Super 8. Promising not only because the first shot—a somber tracking shot as the “Days without an accident
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Notebook Reviews: Éric Rohmer’s “Le rayon vert”
Fernando F. CroceCrystallizing various facets of his Comédies et Proverbes cycle while radically departing from others, the diaristic 1986 beauty Le rayon vert is one of Éric Rohmer’s greatest