Our first dispatch from the Venice Film Festival, with looks at the Golden Lion-winning “Happening,” the winking satire “Official Competition,” Ana Lily Amirpour’s “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon,” and the sublime “Reflection.”
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With “Cherry,” Tom Holland joins the ranks of heartthrobs who try to prove their Serious Actor mettle by dropping their baby fat and cranking up the tics.
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The filmmaker’s first two features join the Criterion Collection this week, but two of his later films have been dismissed as lesser efforts. Not so fast.
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As the new president takes the oath, we wonder: what films indicated the kind of leader America would look for in this new era?
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When ‘Miss Congeniality’ hit theaters 20 years ago, it was marketed as a broad, goofy, makeover comedy. But there’s much more happening under its surface.
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You probably are not giving much thought to either The Expendables, an Avengers-style roundup of action stars with AARP cards, or […]
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“Jo, captivated, watches type being set,” observes Greta Gerwig of her protagonist in the final pages of her screenplay for Little […]
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Ricky Tollman’s Run This Town begins in a bout of stylistic frenzy that defines the ambitions, if not the overall tone, […]
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The year had no shortage of talking animal movies — and might have even hit a nadir with the atrocious Lion […]
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Influencer culture is derided at worst, misunderstood at best in 2019. Thankfully there are filmmakers like Liza Mandelup out there documenting […]
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When I heard that Feast of the Epiphany, the inaugural feature film from the publication Reverse Shot, melded documentary and fiction, […]
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Society tends not to bat an eyelid at intergenerational relationships so long as the elder member of the pairing is a […]
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