The Little Hours (2017; Jeff Baena) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes More high-concept comedy from Life After Beth director and I Heart Huckabees screenwriter Baena. This time, Baena serves up an oddball adaptation of a single story from Boccaccios’s 14th-century literary keystone The Decameron. Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza and Kate […]
Les Cowboys (2016; Thomas Bidegain) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes Long-time Jacques Audiard collaborator Thomas Bidegain makes his directorial debut with this steely-eyed odd duck. It’s precisely the kind of terse tangle of cultural collisions and heavyhanded genre tropes that you would expect from the man who co-wrote […]
` Tale of Tales (2016; Matteo Garrone) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, May 13 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Tale of Tales is a gory, bizarre but oddly restrained fantasy from Gomorrah director Garrone, one inspired by the fairy tales of Giambattista Basile. Salma […]
