Ken Burns is more closely associated with the tweed jacket crowd than the bohemian, blowing dust off antiquarian events so that public access television has…
Left-Handed Girl is a movie of debts: of money owed to hospitals and landlords, of time owed to family, of the obligations of history. For…
Love+War, the latest project produced by Little Monster Films, helmed by the dynamic documentarian duo of Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chair Vasarhelyi (Free Solo), couldn’t…
The themes of time and guilt are ribboned together in Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, a modest yet sweeping period drama set in the Pacific Northwest during…
On its face, the concept of writer-director Nia DaCosta’s Hedda sounds perilously, excitingly ambitious: DaCosta has adapted Henrik Ibsen’s venerated drama of psychological realism Hedda…
An older couple congratulates producer Georges de Beauregard on the success of his magnificent new film — politely interrupting young Jean-Luc Godard, who has been…
The makers of The Perfect Neighbor, which is largely composed of police bodycam and dashcam footage, decided that it was necessary to include a recording…
1992’s The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is B-movie perfection, a secretly elegant story of women in competition that satirizes both maternity and sorority. And…
Simon Stone’s mystery/thriller The Woman in Cabin 10 follows an intriguing, Agatha-adjacent premise: the determined and persistent Laura “Lo” Blacklock (Keira Knightley), a successful investigative…
To know the value of something, you can’t just win it — you have to earn it. That’s a lesson that Edward Berger, cinema’s new…
The only complaint this writer has with Mr. Scorsese, a “film portrait” by Rebecca Miller, is that it is only five hours long. The child…
Good News opens with members of the Japanese militant communist group Red Army Faction — armed with pistols, katanas, and a bomb — hijacking Japan…
For an age in which the threat of nuclear annihilation is so unmistakably present, it strikes one as quite strange how so few contemporary filmmakers…
Following the critical success of 2018’s The Wolf House, directoral duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña have returned with The Hyperboreans, a papier-mâché melange of…
The V/H/S franchise began life as a single found footage anthology film in 2012, bringing together some of the foremost names in independent horror cinema…
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…
For better or worse, Brett Goldstein is always — or at least for the far foreseeable future — going to be associated with his Ted…
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…
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…
It’s always been Prestige TV’s inclination to dip into darker material and gritty violence, but lately there’s been a tendency to spill over into pure…