It’s tempting to pretend that Gene Hackman’s career ended with The Royal Tenenbaums. Three-plus decades after his breakout performance in Bonnie […]
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Blood on Her Name opens with a scene of intense immediacy. A young woman stands above a man’s corpse lying in […]
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“What happened?” the doctor in Sex Madness asks, of a female patient who’s come to him with a case of syphilis. […]
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Director Ari Aster’s goal with Hereditary wasn’t to make a horror film – it’s a family drama, first and foremost, portraying […]
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For over two hundred years, the world has been enchanted with Emma, Jane Austen’s tale of a “handsome, clever, (and) rich” […]
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The Call of the Wild will be the first encounter for some viewers (including this one) with the Disney-owned 20th Century […]
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One of the running refrains of Daniel Roher’s musical bio-doc Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band is that the […]
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There’s some sort of irony in Willem Dafoe providing the voice of a cartoon seagull just a few months after he […]
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Jonathan Lynn’s comedy The Whole Nine Yards (2000), released 20 years ago this week, is a crime caper that draws much […]
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Seberg (out Friday in limited release) begins with a reenactment of a scene from Jean Seberg’s first movie, St. Joan (1957), […]
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The Photograph is a movie that feels needlessly unsure of the story it wants to tell. Stella Meghie’s romance is, at […]
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From their screenplay for Alexander Payne’s The Descendants to their joint directorial debut, 2013’s The Way Way Back, Nat Faxon and […]
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