In Rick Alverson’s “The Mountain,” Jeff Goldlbum is Dr. Wallace Fiennes, a shrewd and conniving lobotomist. He travels across a dreamy ’50s American landscape, performing invasive surgery on a range ...

In one of my first weeks of high school, my freshman English teacher provided our class with a short passage to introduce a discussion of literary tone. The passage was a straightforward description ...

"Bloated, pacified bodies, fed on a steady diet of anasthesia." Rick Alverson is blunt in his description of his nightmare audience, and his latest film, The Mountain, employs A-list headliners (Jeff ...

Let’s start here: the latest project from cinematic provocateur Rick Alverson (“The Comedy,” “Entertainment”) is probably best suited for the sort of on-a-loop side room you’d find in a modern art ...

Rick Alverson isn’t just offering up a great mantra for our modern age. The Virginia-based filmmaker was, during our email interview, announcing that after making three features centered on broken men ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few artists march to the beat of their own drum as proudly as Rick Alverson. The Virginia-based filmmaker is known for his ...

Rick Alverson doesn’t want us to like his films. Sure, he wants us to engage with them, ponder their significance, and figure out what the heck he’s up to with his anti-commercial movies. Despite ...

Richmond filmmaker Rick Alverson spent the last year touring and promoting his latest movie, “The Mountain,” starring Jeff Goldblum and Tye Sheridan. Now, “The Mountain” will finally make its Richmond ...

The Comedy, Rick Alverson’s confrontational and deliberately unpleasant independent feature, screens for just two more days at Facets Multimedia. If you don’t mind being provoked at the movies, it’s ...

Jeff Goldblum plays a genial freelance lobotomist in Rick Alverson’s joyless, yet weirdly beautiful vision of 1950s America. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Alverson explains why he decided to "remove the Goldblum" from his beguiling new movie. In Rick Alverson’s “The Mountain,” Jeff Goldlbum is Dr. Wallace Fiennes, a shrewd and conniving lobotomist. He ...