After a strong run of ensemble and co-lead turns, Angela Bassett finally got the chance to shine as a true lead, delivering a well-rounded, self-empowering performance that viewers have rarely seen in the subsequent quarter-century.
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Charles Laughton was not the first film actor to play a real-life character on screen – far from it. But his performance influenced the trajectory of the biopic genre, demonstrating the full potential of actors to redefine historical figures in the public imagination.
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Gal Gadot stars in this lifeless, featureless Netflix spy movie.
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The story of this 1979 Kennedy assassination satire is as crazy as its plot. Ahead of a new restoration and re-release, a look back at this hidden gem.
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In the early days of hip hop, the nascent genre had a visual counterpart in graffiti culture. Just as the spare production and thick-to-the-point-of-distortion bass and drums of early rap singles cut through the dense, cocaine-trebly rock music of the 1970s, the large, colorful tags on NYC subways demanded the attention of its viewers. Large-scale […]
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Our mini-reviews of “The Passenger,” “Wolfkin,” “Match Me If You Can,” and more of this week’s direct-to-VOD fare.
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In anticipation of “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” we look at another film where a vampire books passage, this time through space (and in the buff).
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David Lynch’s debut is a nightmare vision of what to expect when you’re expecting.
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The latest film adaptation of the cult comic-turned-pop culture juggernaut is, far and away, the funniest.
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Ira Sachs’s drama will get attention for its NC-17 rating, but this film is just as much about emotional intimacy as it is sex.
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Long before ‘Oppenheimer,’ two classic genre films dealt (at least implicitly) with the fallout of the bomb.
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Thirty years ago, ‘The Wedding Banquet’ introduced audiences to Ang Lee’s cinematic musings on repression and passion.
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