Pet Shop Days
Olmo Schabel’s directorial debut succeeds as a delivery system for ’90s-indie vibes, but it fails to elicit empathy for its spoiled, obnoxious lead characters.
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Tag: Venice Film Festival
Allen, Besson, Polanski: Three Converging Scandals?
The Venice Film Festival has made headlines in some quarters for selecting the latest works of Allen, Polanski and Besson
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The Featherweight
‘The Featherweight’ is an inventive faux doc portrait of boxing great Willie Pep who faces his greatest fight yet: his own legacy.
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The Palace
The Palace, Roman Polanski’s appallingly bland black comedy about the filthy rich, is set in a fancy Swiss hotel on New Year’s Eve 1999, and not the least bit funny.
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