Far too many movies demand far too little from viewers. Maybe they aren’t asking the right questions, or perhaps the questions themselves are just…
Killing, at first glance, can seem something of a left-field move for cult director Shinya Tsukamoto; it’s a slow-paced period piece that expends nearly…
There’s a certain corrosive brand of unchecked, Western-centric egotism that’s required for a documentary like the condescending Nuclear Now to ever see the light…
2nd Chance operates in the same unappealing blunt-force register as Bahrani’s narrative works. Ramin Bahrani, once again, has something to say about the state of…
Given its subject matter, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power proves ironically reductive a thesis on art and sexual politics. While made largely in response to the #MeToo…
Amsterdam is an unredeemable, punchline-less comedy that shamelessly spews the most sickeningly neoliberal messaging of 2022. The given motto of David O. Russell’s last three…
There’s no denying that Tyler Perry is an auteur capable of fascinating works, but A Jazzman’s Blues is further proof that the director is…
Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan, like many movies of a similar ilk, has nothing but the best of intentions — though, that’s about all…
The Woman King flattens its feminist appeal into Disney-fied girlboss energy and executes what’s left of its vision in both conventional and calculated ways. What’s…
Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva is a soulless mega-franchise starter that does very little of interest with its massive budget. Chances are, you already know…
Pinocchio is a fascinating late-period work from Zemeckis, one that takes in the full scope of his career as he wills us to believe in…
Camarera de piso — Lucrecia Martel’s latest short, commissioned as part of The National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Síntesis project — comes with a…
An inconspicuous FedEx parcel starts its journey on a desolate Texas dirt road, goes “snowbound,” and ends up in post-USSR Russia a few thousand…
Entering Heaven Alive is Jack White’s most symphonic release in roughly a decade, while also a contender for his least compelling. Jack White’s in love;…
You Still Here, Ho? is more of the same for Flo Milli, but that same is littered with small pockets of joy and Milli’s reliably…
Untrapped flirts with greatness in its initial stretch, but soon frustratingly settles into lionization and depthless narrative. There’s a solid half-hour stretch where Untrapped briefly…
“The problem with Forrest Gump is it made a billion dollars. If we’d just made a successful movie, Bob and I would have been…
The confident, even brazen, Red & White is further proof that Lil Uzi Vert has the uncanny ability to stay one step ahead of…