The 1999 teen rom-com is widely beloved these days — but it’s tonally inexplicable and morally reprehensible, so of course it came from Harvey Weinstein.
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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, […]
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Whether working separately or collaborating on a film project, Elvis and Osgood Perkins have created a body of work that reflects the anxieties and melancholy of mortality.
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The best-loved of director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s three collaborations with novelist Kobe Abe presents a battle of the sexes of primordial proportions.
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The 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam devoted one of its retrospectives to Japanese direct-to-video genre movies.
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Gregory La Cava’s 1936 hit is the quintessential screwball comedy, a rapid-fire, ceaselessly funny exploration of sex, class, and chaos.
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Though Martin Scorsese was no neophyte in 1976, his dark masterpiece started a string of classics that people choose to misunderstand.
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This gay BDSM rom-com wears its big ol’ heart on its leather sleeve.
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Unfairly swept aside by the French New Wave, director Claude Autant-Lara’s classic is a beautiful bauble.
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This month’s examination of the cinematic misdeeds of Miramax spotlights Kevin Williamson’s directorial debut, a would-be black comedy softened and spoiled by the brothers Weinstein.
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The notorious Beatles cover boondoggle is currently, inexplicably streaming on Netflix. You may be tempted to see how bad it could be. Resist that temptation.
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Our mini-reviews of “Grizzly Night,” “The Morrigan,” “Acts of Love” and more of this week’s on-demand treasures and trash.
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