This A24 film can’t maintain the level of either its wild concept or its lead performance from Nicolas Cage.
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On the 40th anniversary of its release, an examination of Bob Fosse’s final film, and what it has to say about sexual violence and exploitation.
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In boarding school dramas like ‘Dead Poets Society,’ ‘Tea and Sympathy,’ ‘The Emperor’s Club,’ and the new ‘The Holdovers,’ filmmakers deftly explore the complications of upper-class abandonment.
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Brian De Palma and Al Pacino’s other gangster classic deserves recognition as one of their best.
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Yasujiro Ozu’s 1953 masterpiece (now streaming on Max and the Criterion Channel) remains a heart-wrenching work of quiet minimalism.
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Netflix’s bio-documentary of Sylvester Stallone is undeniably entertaining, but its omissions are as telling as its inclusions.
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Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed add heart to this blackly comic, near-future love story.
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Ida Lupino and Richard Widmark lead this underrated 1940s thriller full of assertive sexuality and barbed takedowns.
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Scott Eyman’s excellent new book chronicles how art sex and politics collided to drive a genius out of the country.
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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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Woody Allen’s Miramax movies were a quartet of dirty-minded, star-studded screwball comedies where a post-scandal Allen was at his most invincible — and most unrepentant.
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The 1982 Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg team-up remains one of the latter’s most fascinating works, both revisiting and subverting his recurring preoccupations.
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