When Rob Marshall’s adaptation of the 1975 Broadway show was released 20 years ago, it helped pave the way for a new generation of big-budget movie musicals.
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With Noah Baumbach’s long-awaited adaptation of “White Noise” out now, we look back on the handful of underseen films from the mind of Don DeLillo.
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Our editor-in-chief and contributors share their favorite films and actors of the year, along with some thoughts about the current state of the art.
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Director Sarah Polley evokes empathy and wonder with this spare, dialogue-driven drama filled with rich performances from its ensemble.
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Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s sprawling, brainy novel is ambitious, messy, and kind of brilliant.
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Beyond ‘Wendell & Wild’ and ‘Pinocchio,’ Netflix had a third stop-motion animated movie in 2022 that deserves another look.
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Director Bianca Stigter turns three minutes of home movie footage into a powerful feature documentary about a community soon to be murdered in the Holocaust, and an essayistic meditation on the moving image – one of 2022’s best films.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Nightride,’ ‘Teenage Emotions,’ ‘I’m Totally Fine,’ and more of the year’s best straight-to-home-theater fare.
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One of the best independent films of 2022 was Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s paean to the power of dreams.
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It turns out that a movie genre known for aimless characters and awkward interactions is perfect for telling stories about the holiday season.
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As our yuletide movie week comes to a close, we recommend (well, at least for its first hour) Ingmar Bergman’s familial epic, now streaming on HBO Max and the Criterion Channel.
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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Netflix original is a transparent ‘8 1/2’ and ‘All that Jazz’ riff, filled with both striking images and clumsy metaphors.
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