Son of Saul

Members of the Sonderkommando. Picture from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The very first frame of Son of Saul, the Hungarian film that won Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars and the Grand Prix at last year's Cannes Film Festival, is remarkably hazy until Saul, a Hungarian...

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Head

I imagine most young teenagers of the late 1960s—the ones too young to appreciate Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the ones who really dug the zany, Marx Brothers-style comedy of the two seasons of The Monkees—probably were confused out of their mind after watching Head, the 1968...

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Suicide Squad

Let's cut to the chase: The good news is that Suicide Squad, the third entry in the D.C. Extended Universe, is not nearly as bad as this spring's Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. The bad news is that it is still bad. What could have been a fun movie about antiheroes being truly heroic, an antithesis to the overly moody previous D.C. films, is instead a fairly formulaic, rather dull flick...

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