Julie Taymor’s biopic features some welcome convention busting, but its simplistic hagiography wears thin.
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The vibrant street scenes and joyful interactions of Jacques Demy’s 1967 musical hit differently after all these months of isolation.
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The two animated 2015 animated features are worlds apart – yet strangely aligned in questions of empathy and introspection.
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With a new showcase of his work on the Criterion Channel, we look at how Albert Brooks explored the possibilities of his carefully crafted comic persona.
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It’s approaching its 45th anniversary and back on our minds thanks to Ryan Murphy’s ill-advised “Ratched,” so we look back at Milos Forman’s Oscar-sweeping story of rebellion (and emasculation).
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A very unusual dispatch from a very unusual Toronto International Film Festival.
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It’s a time capsule of ‘90s fashion, music, and attitudes. But its central ethos has, if anything, grown more poignant with the passage of time.
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The Netflix thriller has enough colorful characters and convoluted plotting for a limited series. But that messiness just makes it richer.
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Merawi Gerima’s drama is a deeply personal reminder that you can’t go home again.
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The once and future collaborators’ path from ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ to ‘After Hours’ to ‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’ to ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ (again).
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‘Hackers,’ released 25 years ago today, is in many ways a mid-‘90s relic. But it also predicted much about the way we choose to see and present ourselves in the not-so-real world.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Lost Girls & Love Hotels,’ ‘Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs,’ ‘The Swerve,’ and more
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