The crime genre bleeds blue. Crimes tend to be bad, and that makes it easy to establish the police, by the nature of their work,…
You could argue that it’s extremely ironic that The Electric State, an absolutely dismal movie about humanity learning to love corporate-branded A.I. robots rising up…
It becomes clear very early on that the new documentary CHAOS: The Manson Murders is going to be largely incoherent. What is unclear is how…
35 years have passed since Wallace, the affable human inventor, and Gromit, his silent but otherwise exceedingly human-like and exceptionally faithful canine companion, made their…
Over the past few years, Netflix has, to various degrees, made gestures toward bringing beloved box-office stars from Millennial childhoods like Lindsay Lohan, Winona Ryder,…
Perhaps good things happen in airports on Christmas Eve in real life, but never in the movies. Carry-On is no exception, a reasonably diverting thriller that…
An aging singer, years past her prime and in failing health after decades of self-abuse, attempts a Pyrrhic comeback. The compressed structure of a few…
Coming on the heels of Thursday’s Thanksgiving football, it’s fitting when discussing Our Little Secret to take a quick look back at seemingly innocuous moment…
In his film adaptation of August Wilson’s play The Piano Lesson, director Malcom Washington approaches his source material with both reverence and flexibility, providing space…
There’s a feeling most people will recognize, like leafing through a photo album you’ve seen a hundred times — the faces are familiar, the stories…
Living as we all are in a post-Romantasy world, certain chain bookstores (RIP Borders) have been financially reinvigorated. This, of course, has simultaneously resulted in…
Lauded cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto — credited for Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon within the same calendar year — makes his directorial debut with…
Just shy of 10 years after winning an ill-deserved Palme d’Or for Dheepan (2015) — a leering intrusion into the lives of a makeshift Sri…
Filmgoers, and genre fans more specifically, know that it’s hard to mess up those little two-handers about a killer in an isolated space cat-and-mousing with…
The highlight of the 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival, and winner of the Roger’s Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary and the Hot Docs audience…
We truly are in a golden age of action cinema. From every corner of the globe, with budgets high, low, and in-between, remarkably fit men…
On the Wikipedia page for the serial killer Rodney Alcala, there is a 145-word entry under the subheading “Dating Game appearance,” which recounts an unsettling…
Anytime Park Chan-wook makes a movie, it’s an event. One of the most exciting and formally striking auteurs to hail from South Korea — and…
The greatest sin a basketball film or TV series can commit is to enlist actors who can’t actually play basketball. More than any other sport,…
In many ways, road trips are the perfect vehicle for self-discovery — both in life and in cinema. Removed from the distractions and routines of…
At the end of the very first (of many) verbal arguments in Azazel Jacobs’ His Three Daughters, an emotionally potent chamber drama about three estranged…