Christoph Waltz brings up the rear of our exclusive Tribeca coverage at Criminal Element with Georgetown now live here.
He gave crazy a bad name during a time of craziness. Exclusive Tribeca review of Charlie Says now up here.
It was the meltdown and the cover-up. Exclusive Criminal Element review of HBO's Chernobyl now up here.
In Maine, the Haddock is tasty, but sibling loyalty can be murder. The exclusive Tribeca review of Blow the Man Down is now up on Criminal Element here.
We promise, absolutely no spoilers in our Tribeca review of Come to Daddy, now up exclusively at Criminal Element here.
It's sort of a reverse-curtain-raiser. As we gear up for this year's Tribeca Film Festival, we look back at the best of mysteries, thrillers, and true crime docs from the previous ten fests in our exclusive Criminal Element survey, now up here.
Get psyched to feel empowered and nostalgic. Nancy Drew is back on the case. J.B.'s exclusive review of Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase is now up at Criminal Element here.
The Mafia's assassination of two crusading judges was not well-covered in the drive-by media (big surprise), but photographer Letizia Battaglia witnessed and documented those tumultuous times in Sicily first-hand. She lived to tell the tale in the documentary Shooting the Mafia. Exclusive Criminal Element review now up here.
It might just be Blumhouse that truly breaks out David Oyelowo as a box-office-opening movie-star. Exclusive Criminal Element Sundance review of Relive now up here.
Good news, Alex Gibney's latest documentary-of-the-week is one of his best. Exclusive Criminal Element review of The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, which screened at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, is now up here.
Zac Efron is surprisingly good as Ted Bundy, but the film will really make people all kinds of uncomfortable. Exclusive 2019 Sundance Film Festival review of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile now up at Criminal Element here.
It's time to visit Slamdance with a couple of trouble-making out-of-town New Yorkers. Exclusive Criminal Element review of Lost Holiday is now up here.
Exclusive Criminal Element coverage of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival fittingly kicks off with the documentary Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played with Fire here. It's hybrid-ish and fully stocked with intrigue and paranoia.
So here's something the entire family can binge together during the holidays. Feel the love in Acorn TV's Blood, a dark morality tale about extreme family dysfunction and quite possibly murder. Exclusive Criminal Element review now up here.
Yes, it stacks the deck against the great, progressive State of Israel, just like the source novel, but when Park Chan-wook directs Michael Shannon, how can you not watch? Exclusive J.B. review now up at CRIMINAL ELEMENT here.
All the episodes
debut tomorrow, but it is already renewed for a second season. This is how TV
works these days, if we can still use that term. Regardless, Julia Roberts
lends her still considerable star-power to the first season of Homecoming. The gist: it is remarkably
stylish visually, especially considering it based on a podcast. Exclusive J.B.
review now live on Criminal Element here.
It is an auteurist
Cannes favorite chosen by South Korea as their official foreign language Oscar
submission, but it is still tense and mysterious. Lee Chang-dong’s Burning is also based on a Haruki
Murakami short story, which (hopefully) interests Criminal Element readers, as well. Executive summary: it is definitely
Lee’s best film yet, even if it is not as accessible as Poetry. Exclusive review from J.B. now live here.
Perhaps fittingly, J.B.’s
first piece for Criminal Element goes
back to where crime fiction started, or at least when it first reached
widespread popularity, with an exclusive review of the latest adaptation of The Woman in White. The executive precis
is: still entertainingly atmospheric, despite some departures from the text
that purists might object to (like a slimmed down Fosco). It’s now live here.
