Josh Kupecki
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Thomas Kinkade Was the World's Biggest Selling Painter. Art for Everybody Asks Why.
It's a lush garden in the full bloom of spring, a hidden bench under a tree revealed by a shaft of sunlight. It's a towering lighthouse above a rocky coast, a bright beacon of guidance and safety. More often than not, it's a rustic cottage nestled in the countryside at twilight, just across that bridge over the babbling brook. That's the world of artist Thomas Kinkade. “Kinkade did what Andy… → Read More
Movie Review: Saint Omer
French true-crime drama gives sharp insight into the immigrant experience → Read More
Movie Review: Corsage
Vicky Krieps shines in this sullen biopic of Austrian Empress Elisabeth → Read More
Movie Review: White Noise
Can Don DeLillo's postmodern landmark make it to the actual future? → Read More
Movie Review: Last Flight Home
The decision to embrace death becomes a touching affirmation of life → Read More
Both Sides of the Blade
Roiling, contradictory passions rule in Claire Denis’ latest → Read More
Austin Filmmakers Take Nudist Documentary to Tribeca
Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan explore the vulnerability of a nudist resort in Naked Gardens → Read More
SXSW Film Review: Lover, Beloved: Suzanne Vega hunts for Carson McCullers in this filmed stageplay
Suzanne Vega hunts for Carson McCullers in this filmed stageplay → Read More
SXSW Film Review: Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets: Reflective doc revisits Gamestop (again)
Of the tales to be told in the aftermath of these decaying last days of empire, the GameStop saga will endure as a campfire crowd-pleaser. Already the incident has begot a fair number of docs and postmortems: HBO, BBC, Vice, and others have chronicled this financial riposte upon the elite by mere peasants. And now Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreet Bets, an MSNBC-produced doc directed by… → Read More
SXSW Film Review: The Thief Collector: Crime curiosity leaves its questions unanswered
There are a great deal of questions swirling around the events of The Thief Collector, the latest documentary from Alison Otto (“The Love Bugs,” “Property”). And while most of them remain unanswered by the film’s end, there is no shortage of theories set forth by the film’s participants. What is known is this: On November 29th, 1985, Willem de Kooning’s painting “Woman-Ochre” was stolen from the… → Read More
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Joel Coen's stark and silvery take on the Bard's revenger → Read More
Movie Review: King Richard
And dad makes three in this Williams family tennis biopic → Read More
The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson's candy-colored tribute to The New Yorker → Read More
SXSW Film Review: WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn: How hubris was baked into the mega-startup
There is something perennially fascinating about watching a hubristic fiasco unfold. One only needs to look at the Fyre Fest debacle or those GameStop upstarts launching Wall Street into a tantrum for recent examples. There’s no shortage of schadenfreude these days. Add to the list the 2019 financial collapse of WeWork, a tech startup that went from $47 billion to bankruptcy in an epic six-week… → Read More
Movie Review: Chaos Walking
Interstellar YA adaptation brings a new gender twist to the formula → Read More
Movie Review: Silk Road
Story of the Dread Pirate Roberts versus the FBI falls into bothsidesisms → Read More
M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
The mathematical artist, in his own words and unique images → Read More
Movie Review: Black Bear
Tricksy relationship drama explores the cruelty in creativity → Read More
Movie Review: City Hall
Frederick Wiseman's epic dive into Boston politics is your new West Wing → Read More
AFF Review: The Catch: Chilly seafront drug heist drama finds a family in crisis
Chilly seafront drug heist drama finds a family in crisis → Read More