Pete's Place

There’s something very wrong with Thelma, though we’re not quite sure what it is. We first meet her when she’s just a child, living with ...

Biographical documentaries of famous people are typically dull affairs, the kind of thing that falls into hagiography or the kind of talk...

In an alternate, less uptight version of our reality, 1980s TV detective series knew no censors. They were seedier in their homage to pul...

In case Gary "What Is Aleppo?" Johnson is still wondering why it is important that (potential) world leaders and the world at l...

In 1959, the writer and philosopher Guy Debord, best known for his work on what he called "the society of the spectacle," made ...

More imaginative than Coco , more soulful than Moana , more everything than Despicable Me 3 , Nora Twomey’s The Breadwinner cements Irela...

Agnès Varda may not see as well as she used to, but her creative vision has never been clearer. If the magnificently moving, funny, life-...

Grizzled and limping, speaking with a reserved twang full of self-doubt, Bill Pullman is nobody's ten-gallon hero in The Ballad of Le...

With its sex-related gags and pure raunchiness, Blockers provides enough R-rated humor to satisfy those who are growing tired of the tam...

Set during the three days in 1940 when the forces of Nazi Germany overran and subjugated previously neutral Norway, The King’s Choice is...

Four years ago, Sebastian Lelio shook up the official competition in Berlin with Gloria , a bracingly honest, ultimately empowering study...

Walking Out is a tense survival thriller that offers much more than nail-biting adventure. Sure, it has plenty of edge-of-the seat suspen...

Stand in front of a painting by Vincent van Gogh for more than five minutes (as I have on my many visits to the Musee d’Orsay in Paris), ...