Studio comedies are in a rut: In 2017, we had to contend with such junk as The House, Rough Night, and (shudder) CHIPS, to name a few. Fortunately, the independent world is as vibrant and vital as ever, offering up such excellent films like The Little Hours, written and directed by Jeff Baena. His star, […]

With all due respect to troubled figure skaters from the ‘90s, if you see only one I, [Woman’s Name] movie this year, make it I, Olga Hepnarová. Like the more high-profile American movie to which it bares titular similarity, this Czech film is also based on a shocking true crime story, albeit a far more […]

It was just this week that we saw the biggest merger in recent history between Fox and Disney. What does this mean to us? What does this mean to a free press that’s just as reliant on reporting the news as it is pleasing the people and institutions that provide it? All of this is […]

At a time when indie filmmakers are increasingly turning to crowdfunding platforms to bring their modestly budgeted visions to life, many genre films arrive with a cult audience baked right in. The Void doubles down on that by being about a cult, specifically of disciples in thrall to a Lovecraftian entity bent on altering reality […]

Despite the never-ending flood of sexual harassment accusations and our President just … talking, this was a pretty amazing year to be a woman. Or, to at least see the feats of amazing women on-screen. While everyone was rightfully cheering Wonder Woman, though, one film slipped under the radar that deserved as much attention. Lone […]

Any movie starring the eternally great Song Kang-ho is a movie worth seeing, but his latest manages to be more than just terrific entertainment. The true story follows 48 hours in the life of the eponymous blue-collar worker during South Korea’s military coup in the early ’80s that followed the president’s assassination. Crackdowns of universities […]

One of the year’s most quietly devastating performances can be found in Terence Davies’ immaculately rendered portrait of poet Emily Dickinson. That is, it’s quiet until the moment Emily (played with a fierce, undeniable intelligence by Cynthia Nixon) releases the emotions she’s kept pent up inside her. Cloistered as she is (she’s introduced at a […]

Dennis Quaid has been in the movie business since debuting as an uncredited bellhop in 1975’s Crazy Mama, and he’s made another 67 feature film appearances in the four decades since. He frequently jumps across genres from comedies to action to prestige drama, but there’s one near-constant throughout his filmography: Almost all of his lead […]