Benny Safdie, formerly of the eponymous directing team the Safdie brothers, makes his solo feature-directing debut with The Smashing Machine, and at a glance, the filmmaker…
The Strangers – Chapter 2 (directed by Renny Harlin) occurs in the immediate aftermath of the carnage of Chapter 1. The incredibly concise narrative timeline…
Of all the exceptional projects Jon Bois has delivered, his creation of a concept known as Scorigami is probably his most recognizable. First seen in…
Toward the beginning of Jay-Z’s “The Story of O.J.,” the rapper-cum-boardroom fixture adlibs a lament about a missed opportunity in real estate. “I coulda bought…
For better or worse, Brett Goldstein is always — or at least for the far foreseeable future — going to be associated with his Ted…
Most great cinema centers around The Other — people who, fairly or unfairly, feel out of step with the society around them. Their idiosyncrasies allow…
“We learned punk rock in Hollywood.” – Minutemen Film culture feels at times like it’s reached a dead end in the Letterboxd generation, cinephilia no…
Ahead of assembly, Justin Tipping’s football horror Him had the components of a serviceable genre flick. As a child, Cam (Tyriq Withers) was pushed to…
Whatever else you can say about Nico Ballesteros’ fascinating and frustrating In Whose Name?, it doesn’t make too many excuses for the downfall of Kanye…
Since his starring role in 2023’s Oppenheimer, a role that made him a bona fide Hollywood A-lister and won him an Academy Award, Cillian Murphy…
Few things are capable of riling almost everyone up collectively, and those that do typically pivot toward unambiguous moral spectacle. In the hyper-mediated 21st century,…
Hot on the heels of the exemplary Diablo, Scott Adkins, the hardest-working man in DTV action, is back with Prisoner of War. It’s a “big”…
We get two post-apocalyptic action films starring Dave Bautista as a loner hero crossing a barren wasteland and taking a long train trip this year!…
Grieving in cinema — often perceived as the most painful remembrance of someone whose body you can no longer possess, but whose soul (consciousness, if…
Writer-director Carmen Emmi, inspired in part by a 2016 L.A. Times article detailing a sting operation by undercover police officers at a popular cruising site…
Compulsion begins with a long, snaking POV tracking shot; we see only a pair of gloved hands as the camera enters a gated residence, scales…
Paul Greengrass hasn’t had a bona fide box office hit in quite some time, but the good work marches on: he continues to churn out…
Megalopolis. It’s the movie that just won’t die. Whatever one’s take on it upon release, and the takes were legion, Francis Ford Coppola has kept…
In Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey two attractive yet emotionally wounded people take a magical mystery tour of their complicated pasts, traversing space, time,…
The “theatre kids” of the world, spurred on by the renewed cultural phenomenon of Wicked, a spate of TikTok parody musicals amidst pandemic-era social distancing,…