The site’s review curators have delved deep into the history of film criticism and added a significant range of critics who haven’t, until now, got their due.
“Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened” is a moving combination of a backstage musical documentary and a first-person story of youthful dreams.
The tenor saxophonist and composer had grand musical designs and concepts in mind—and he even realized some of them, though many weren’t released at the time of their recording.
I’m turning to movies serious enough for the mood, compelling enough to provide ready distraction, and confident enough to look beyond the troubles that they evoke.
The paradox of public events right now is that their success is measured by crowds; the kinds of movies that rely on big box-office returns are the ones that now pose the greatest threat of contagion.
The film is not just a drama of observation but a drama of radical subjectivity, in which the protagonist finds her inner life extruded, pressed into connection with the complex ways of the world.