(Agnes und seine Brüder, 2004) Oskar Roehler’s creepy family dysfunction comedy from Deutschland takes its cues more from a movie like “The Celebration” and Fassbinder’s “In a Year with Thirteen Moons” than traditional comic fare. Among the transgressive topics: incest, transsexualism, voyeurism, masturbation and public shitting. Among the actors: Moritz Bleibtreu (“Run Lola Run”), Martin Weiss, Herbert Knaup and New German Cinema axioms Margit Carstensen and Vadim Glowna. 115m. (Ray Pride)
Seeing The Elephant: A Review Of Babylon The boisterous, brawling yet melancholy "Babylon," is a variation on film history, but more drawing for drama. It's gaudy and mean, celebratory and sorrowful.
Heart: A Review of Soul The real world is soulful, too, in Pixar's bountiful life of the mind.
Heart of Darkness: A Review of The Batman The three-hour film noir unfolds briskly, an intensive study in the pervasive interplay of power, money and corruption in what seems like perpetual rainy night.
