FURMAN ON FILM

A YEAR OF CINEMATIC SURPRISES At the start of this past year, you could have been forgiven for assuming we were in for a down year. The...

“F**K THE PATRIARCHY!” And with that opening salvo (which never, by the way, appears in the screenplay to the new film about Mattel’s...

On paper, The Rider simply does not work. In fact, it’s almost oxymoronic. An Asian woman crafting an emotional journey about life in the...

It never ceases to amaze me that the man behind a 200+ minute, full-scale epic like Lawrence of Arabia could just pivot to a two-hander...

The Vanishing joins the long line of films featuring answering machines which apparently have magical powers. Besides being outdated,...

Alice, Darling may just be the first real hidden gem I’ve found in 2023. It’s a picture that scans like a taut psychological thriller a...

THE YEAR OF THE FOUR-ISH STAR FILM It's a frequent debate that my best film buds and I engage in all too regularly these days. It always...

This film is kind of a miracle. I mean, when have you last seen a picture which contained two titanic performances and at least several...

A TOY DOLL, A DESTROYER OF WORLDS, AND THE WHO'S WHO OF AUTEUR RELEASES IN 2023 There is a popular gif circulating around the interwebs...

The secret sauce in Something in the Dirt is NOT in the excavation of heady sci-fi concepts, cultic conspiracy theorizing, and...

Look up the word “unflinching,” and this is the picture you will find. Pleasure has left me far more devastated than the porn-adjacent...

I wish they made more films like Causeway. That is to say. simple, human, and deeply moving. A quiet and understated drama that traffics...