On its 40th anniversary, an exploration of what James L. Brooks’s Oscar winner gets right – and other weepies don’t.
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest is a bit of a one-joke movie, though to be fair, it’s an awfully good joke.
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The new film from Ava DuVernay is a well-meaning letdown looks like it was made to play in every middle school that isn’t scared to show students something that resembles critical race theory.
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Three recent variations on Mary Shelley’s classic novel finally capture the passionate feminist perspective the author embodied.
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In “The Brink’s Job,” director William Friedkin and screenwriter Walon Green found the humor in one of the most notorious bank robberies in Boston by playing with the standards set by previous crime films set in the Commonwealth.
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First released in December 1973, Robin Hardy’s folk horror remains a fascinating piece of mishandled cinema.
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Our mini-reviews of “Vengeance: Rise of the Footsoldier,” “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer,” “Fast Charlie,” and more.
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The 1997 crime film/modern-day western is one of Stallone’s best performances. And one of his most personal.
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Twenty years ago, Miramax dropped the filthiest, funniest gift into theaters – following even more behind-the-scenes drama than usual.
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Sixty years ago, Georges Franju paid tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes with an affectionate remake of Louis Feuillade’s “Judex.”
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William Oldroyd’s adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel is a wickedly entertaining mash-up of psychological thriller, film noir, and lesbian pulp.
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Todd Haynes still surprises with this blackly comic drama inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal.
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