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Nathan Lee
Physician, Heal Thyself
By
Nathan Lee
November 29, 2022
Dig it: the happenings at Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet remain as strange and bitingly funny as ever in
The Kingdom Exodus
, the anticipated third season of Lars von Trier’s series
I’ll Be Your Mirror
By
Nathan Lee
November 29, 2021
Thin crust: Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated (and widely feted)
Licorice Pizza
leaves an aftertaste both sweet and sour
Mind Games
By
Nathan Lee
August 9, 2021
Get weird: Leos Carax’s
Annette
is a deep dive into the irreducible strangeness of the musical form
The Big Screen: The Nightingale
By
Nathan Lee
August 1, 2019
Jennifer Kent is a genuine filmmaker of ideas, but
The Nightingale
is clipped by problems of form
Review: The Assignment
By
Nathan Lee
March 3, 2017
(Walter Hill, USA, Saban Films, Opens April 7)
Review: Tetro
By
Nathan Lee
May 4, 2015
(Francis Ford Coppola, U.S./Argentina, 2009)
The Texture of Genius
By
Nathan Lee
March 5, 2015
Clothes embody ideas in Bertrand Bonello’s
Saint Laurent
, a shifting look at the designer and his work
Review: Julia
By
Nathan Lee
October 7, 2014
(Erick Zonca, France, 2008)
Review: The September Issue
By
Nathan Lee
September 24, 2014
(R.J. Cutler, U.S., 2009)
Review: Maps to the Stars
By
Nathan Lee
September 8, 2014
(David Cronenberg, Canada/Germany, 2014)
Blu-Ray Pick: Scanners
By
Nathan Lee
June 30, 2014
(Criterion, $39.95)
Review: Interior. Leather Bar.
By
Nathan Lee
March 4, 2014
(James Franco & Travis Mathews, U.S., 2013)
Ghostframe Killah
By
Nathan Lee
January 10, 2013
Toward a theory of found-footage horror in general and the
Paranormal Activity
cycle in particular
Keep the Lights On
By
Nathan Lee
August 27, 2012
The heartache of a lopsided long-term relationship
Review: She Hate Me
By
Nathan Lee
June 1, 2011
(Spike Lee, U.S., 2004)
Review: Anatomy of Hell
By
Nathan Lee
June 1, 2011
(Catherine Breillat, France, 2004)
Field Notes
By
Nathan Lee
June 1, 2011
Nathan Lee chats with Paul Pfeiffer about
Empire
—the ultimate bug movie
Elusive Objects of Desire
By
Nathan Lee
June 1, 2011
A stealth sequel to In the
Mood for Love
, the epic remix that is
2046
is the summation of Wong Kar-Wai's lyrical melancholia
Review: Black Snake Moan
By
Nathan Lee
May 31, 2011
(Craig Brewer, U.S., 2007)
Fatalistic Tendency
By
Nathan Lee
May 26, 2011
Gus Van Sant’s
Milk
takes its place alongside a recent spate of cinematic death trips
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