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Returning to theaters after 20 years, the Korean film 'Oldboy' from director Park Chan-wook paints a violent picture of what redemption can mean in a 'disfigured society.'
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A new documentary called A Compassionate Spy is about a man little known in America, but who played a shocking role in the history of the world. For KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz the movie makes an important extension for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
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Finally out, the new film Oppenheimer tells a story about the man who led the project to create the atom bomb. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says it’s become rare to see an expensive Hollywood movie of such deep moral complexity.
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A new film from France called "Scarlet" tells a story of a girl and her father in the years after World War I, when life can be hard and unsettled. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says "Scarlet" is hard to classify, which is good.
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A new political thriller examines a life of comfort disrupted under the rule of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The movie, Chile ’76 from Manuela Martelli, is quiet — and for that reason, unnerving.
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In late 1985, “Woman-Ochre,” a painting by abstract expressionist master Willem de Kooning was stolen from the University of Arizona Art Museum. Thirty-two years later, the painting turned up in a home in rural New Mexico. The new documentary "The Thief Collector" is about the thieves.
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French filmmaker François Ozon is the director of '8 Women,' 'Swimming Pool' and 'Frantz.' His 2021 film 'Everything Went Fine' is just opening in the United States. It’s a family story with an ailing father who wants to die. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz, says that in Ozon’s best films, nothing is simple.
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The new movie 'Carmen' tells an old story. A story that’s been told over and over about unlucky lovers in a world that has no place for them and wants to do them in. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says that in show-biz terms, the story has “legs,” and this new film feels current and vibrant.
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The new film 'Showing Up' is about a young clay sculptor getting ready for a show. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says that the movie is nothing like other movies about artists.
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The Women + Film Festival at the Sie Film Center runs from April 13-16th, screening movies either made by women or primarily about women. For KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz, work by women still doesn’t get the respect it deserves.