Is it possible to avoid isolation in the world, or is everyone truly alone at the finale? Is every human subject, by definition of its uniqueness and individuality, permanently in solitude, and if so, is this such a bad thing?   It’s Such a Beautiful Day captures one such subjectivity but does not necessarily sway one way or another on indicting Bill’s isolation from the world as....

  Sometimes the past needs to be left in the past for a reason. That is what is discovered in Copenhagen by the lead protagonist, who, at the opening, is an ideally portrayed narcissist without a care in a world that does not serve him. This is a telling psychological hint at what the plot has in store for him, to explain that is why he is an ass-clown.   He and his friend....

  With Bird People, are we to stipulate that the two main characters in the film, who merely run into each other in passing while at an airport hotel, prefer and out of body experience than to animate the flesh and blood they were born with? What can explain the magical fancy the film pivots on as it draws its curtains, when the female French maid spends an evening flying around as a....