Scott Cooper’s portrait of the Boss is exactly the kind of cliché-ridden, by-the-numbers biopic that it looks like.
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The new Bruce Springsteen biopic, about the making of his 1982 minimalist masterpiece, is the latest in the album’s long cinematic lineage.
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Our mini-reviews of “Delivery Run,” “The Spirit of Halloweentown,” “This Too Shall Pass,” and more new under-the-radar on-demand offerings.
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This 2018 Swedish science fiction film finds a spaceship’s passengers drifting off course into depression and existential dread.
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Director Joan Micklin Silver and star Carol Kane tell a timeless story of tradition, assimilation, and agency.
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Kelly Reichardt puts her distinctive spin on the heist movie with this deft, downbeat entry into the genre.
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Cameron Crowe’s famous flop may be best remembered for inspiring the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” but its legacy should also include being the first of 20 years of failed launches for a generation of leading men like Orlando Bloom, whose appeal couldn’t translate outside of franchises.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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With the books closed on another New York Film Festival, we take a look at some of the highlights, including “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” “It Was Just an Accident,” “Cover-Up,” “Anomone,” and “Father Mother Sister Brother.”
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Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta’s adaptation of the incendiary Heinrich Böll novel premiered in the U.S. fifty years ago this week, but it feels like it hasn’t aged a day.
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The shout-out to Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 masterpiece in “One Battle After Another” isn’t casual — and the film itself remains earth-shattering.
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Luca Guadagnino’s university-set drama is basically a movie-length lecture by a mediocre professor.
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