(Screened at Fantastic Fest; U.S. release TBA; opens in France in January) Coming-of-age metaphors collide messily in Savage (Les Fauves), a weak-willed French […]
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Jeremy Saulnier knows violence. The director of Hold the Dark (arriving on Netflix this week) makes movies filled with brutal, intense […]
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(On VOD.) Keep an Eye Out is the latest absurdist lark from Quentin Dupieux, whose Rubber — about a series of murders committed […]
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Jack Black opted out of the Goosebumps sequel in order to make The House with a Clock in Its Walls, which is […]
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Assassination Nation, based on the hashtags #woke and #metoo, is an in-your-face, self-consciously edgy satire about a town called Salem that […]
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Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade and Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird have recently been praised for dealing seriously with their young female subjects, […]
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Some movies conjure up bittersweet recollections while emitting positive vibes. That’s all part of the cinematic experience — relating to subject […]
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Like all film fans, I was ecstatic when the lineups for the Toronto, Venice, and Telluride film festivals were announced. There […]
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I skipped out on the big political event of the Toronto International Film Festival, the premiere of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, […]
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Unlike the late entries in some horror franchises, The Predator doesn’t pretend any of its predecessors didn’t happen, but you don’t need […]
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Based on Darcey Bell’s novel, which must have been inspired by Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, A Simple Favor is a funny, dark-edged, […]
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It’s unlikely (I hope) that the Wershe family of Detroit will remind you of your own clan. As portrayed in White […]
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