The oft-told story of the French-German dance-pop duo known as Milli Vanilli, comprising Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus, is a scandalous tale of exposed fraud…
Another week, another disposable Netflix feature that barely registers even as you’re watching it, seemingly designed to evaporate upon release (all the better to make…
The suburban opioid crisis, like the war on terror and the ‘08 financial collapse before it, finally gets the smug “explainer video” treatment. After faintly…
The main question asked in Errol Morris’ newest film — a presentation of late author John le Carré’s final interview — is not posed by…
The most revealing — in more ways than one — moment in Nyad, a biopic of the sixty-something marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, is a prolonged…
It’s easy to synopsize the minimal plot of the bizarre new South Korean whatsit The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra — fungus growing on a mattress becomes…
The fifth in filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s run of miniseries made for Netflix, The Fall of the House of Usher finds him returning to adaptation once…
Haitian director Raoul Peck has made some formally daring feature films, but his documentary work has tended to be a bit more subdued, preferring to…
Trapped in their luxurious mansion, a previously well-to-do family in the Philippines suffers through the tail-end of World War II, constantly being harassed by the…
There exists not a single person on the planet who read Stephen King’s 1983 novel Pet Sematary or watched either the 1989 film adaptation or 2019…
The new Blumhouse/Amazon co-production Totally Killer accrued a bit of social media infamy this past summer upon the release of its first trailer. Horror fans…
The inspiration for Maggie Betts’ The Burial was an actual court case that took place in Mississippi in 1995, in which Jeremiah O’Keefe, the former…
William Friedkin’s The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a final cry of olde — a stripped-down but stylized last film that announces its intentions and uses…
It’s almost October, which means Cozy Anderson Autumn is officially upon us. While 2009’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox was a joyous animated heist movie replete…
Much has been written over the last few years of how the limited dramatic series has eroded the market for the mid-sized, adult-themed, star-driven drama…
The most buzzed-about title at this past January’s Sundance (accompanied by an astonishing $20 million acquisition from Netflix), Chloe Domont’s Fair Play has been heralded…
There’s a recurring motif in Cassandro where Gael García Bernal’s character, an openly gay luchador, works an outwardly hostile crowd from inside the ring; weathering…
Consistently divisive and successfully provocative, Sebastián Silva had existed in a seemingly charmed space — relative to that of the average, contemporary independent filmmaker —…
Like a political cartoon stretched out to feature length and shot like a German Expressionist film, Pablo Larraín’s El Conde possesses one of the year’s…
Mother Lode straddles a few different lines in its depiction of the grueling lives of gold miners in the mountains of Peru. For all practical…