Making the transition from child star to adult actor is never easy. For every Jodie Foster or Kurt Russell, there are dozens of kids who gave up on acting when they hit puberty, or failed spectacularly when they attempted to take on more mature roles. When Kiernan Shipka showed up on Mad Men at six […]
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Jonathan Levine’s stoner comedy pays homage to Christmas movie forebears and poignantly captures the particular joys and melancholy of old friendships.
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Musical comedy stars take an unexpected walk on the dark side of the festive season.
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Ingmar Bergman’s 13th feature, now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Max, was a breakthrough: “I felt for the first time I’d made a good film.”
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Our annual showcase of offbeat holiday movies begins with one of the gnarliest we’ve ever recommended.
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With this audacious adaptation, RaMell Ross has made the best movie of 2024.
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As critics’ prizes and award body nominations are announced, let’s take a moment to acknowledge the genre films that will probably be ignored.
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With cult director Alex Cox on the cusp of turning 70, we look at ‘Walker,’ the film that rendered him unemployable in Hollywood.
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Welcome to Harvey’s Hellhole, a monthly column devoted to spotlighting the movies that were poorly marketed, mishandled, reshaped, neglected or just straight-up destroyed by Harvey Weinstein during his reign as one of the most powerful studio chiefs in Hollywood. Let’s once again go back to a year that was horrible for him — but great […]
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Our mini-reviews of “Dick Dynamite: 1944,” “Endless Summer Syndrome,” and, God help us, a horror version of “The Little Mermaid.”
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Two decades on, the Europe-set caper remains a wittily subversive heist movie.
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Otto Preminger’s 1944 film noir fave maintains its ability to delight and surprise.
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