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Images in Review: Poor Things

Images in Review: Poor Things

Rosario Carranza February 7, 2024
Rosario Carranza '27 reviews Oscar-nominated film Poor Things.
Images Cinema advertises its latest showing of Stop Making Sense. (Shane Stackpole/The Williams Record)

Images in Review: Stop Making Sense

Zoe Leindecker, Staff Writer October 4, 2023

I've been a die-hard Talking Heads fan ever since I discovered their song “Once in a Lifetime” as a middle schooler. Naturally, I was ecstatic when I heard that production company A24 was rereleasing...

Images in Review: How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Images in Review: How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Tali Natter May 10, 2023
Tali Natter ’23 reviews environmentalist action-thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Images Cinema started showing the film To Leslie on March 10. (Theo Duarte-Baird/The Williams Record)

Images in Review: To Leslie

John Aste March 15, 2023
John Aste '25 reviews To Leslie while reflecting on star Andrea Riseborough's controversial Oscar nomination.

Images in Review: The Whale

Caroline Morrissey February 8, 2023
Caroline Morrissey ’25 reviews this Oscar season's heartbreaking The Whale.
Park Hae-il stars in Park Chan-wook’s detective film Decision to Leave. (Kiara Royer/The Williams Record)

Images in Review: Decision to Leave makes some questionable decisions

Tharini Prakash November 16, 2022
I left Park Chan-wook’s latest romance-mystery-thriller feeling confused and unsatisfied. It’s true that Decision to Leave is beautifully directed, but the plot leaves much to be desired.
Todd Field’s Tár stars Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, a composer-conductor. (Photo courtesy of Kiara Royer/The Williams Record.)

Images in Review: Tár misses mark

John Aste November 2, 2022
The film Tár at Images Cinema tells the story of a composer-conductor with an impeccable resume who sows the seeds of her own downfall from the upper echelons of the classical music world. Despite grappling with victimhood, reputation, and artistry, I feel Tár fails to deliver all it promises.
A24’s documentary Cow tells the life story of a mother cow named Luma. (Photo courtesy of Images Cinema.)

Fresh Fest’s ‘Cow’ presents a tragic bovine heroine

Katya Ulyanov and Caroline Morrissey May 11, 2022
As springtime arrives and the temperature begins to spike, Images Cinema’s annual Fresh Fest is in full swing. The festival features an array of eye-opening documentaries and non-fiction dramas showcasing stories of human-environment interaction with messages about how farming and food production impact culture.
Images is screening The Northman until May 5th. (Ava Burr/Williams Record)

Images in Review: Surrender to the new viking drama, The Northman

Tharini Prakash April 27, 2022

Robert Eggers’ newest film based on Norse folklore is sure to satisfy fans of Viking dramas, cinematic gore, and Nicole Kidman. A revenge tale of enormous scale, The Northman packs its two-hour runtime...

Images in Review: Anything goes in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Images in Review: Anything goes in Everything Everywhere All at Once

John Aste April 20, 2022
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is so radically new and original you leave the theater with a changed perception of what movies can be, what they can do, and where they are going.
Director and screenwriter Sian Heder’s CODA, 2022 Best Picture, is playing at Images until April 14. (Ava Burr/The Williams Record.)

Images in Review: Deafness and representation in CODA

Ari Quasney April 13, 2022
Even after watching CODA twice, I am still struggling to answer a question: Who is this movie for?
Images in Review: 2022 Oscar- Nominated Animated Shorts

Images in Review: 2022 Oscar- Nominated Animated Shorts

Katya Ulyanov and Caroline Morrissey March 2, 2022

The Animated Shorts Oscars category is always a tense competition, and this year rounded up five powerful films from six different countries: Robin, Robin, БоксБалет (Boxballet), Affairs of the...

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