Yi Yi - dir. Edward Yang (2000)

Yi Yi is an elegantly constructed portrait of a family in Taipei in the 1990s. It is bookended by a wedding, at which the family matriarch takes ill, and a funeral, at which the family commemorates her death. In between, we witness the characters and the emotional mysteries that they confront—NJ, the quiet, frustrated father; Yang Yang, his inquisitive son; Ting Ting, his teenage daughter, pulled between her neighbor and her neighbor’s boyfriend....

February 22, 2021 · 2 min

The Little Things - dir. John Lee Hancock (2021)

The Little Things is a procedural crime thriller in the vein of Seven, Zodiac, and Prisoners. It shares with those works a tension built from its characters' monomania, as Joe Deacon (Denzel Washington) and Jim Baxter (Rami Malek) seek a serial killer in early 1990s Los Angeles....

February 3, 2021 · 3 min

Model Shop - dir. Jacques Demy (1969)

The documentary qualities of this film are intensely pleasurable. It is remarkable how little Sunset Blvd. and its environs have changed in almost any meaningful way since 1968....

January 28, 2021 · 1 min