With little of the fanfare or cult of personality that has greeted the Peeles, Eggers, and Asters of the world, filmmaker Oz Perkins (I…
Confusing glibness for frothy irreverence, Greg Berlanti’s Fly Me to the Moon primarily caters to two long-underserved segments of the audience: those yearning for the…
Primarily set in a single, sparsely-dressed location and embracing archness and theatricality, Niclas Larsson’s Mother, Couch could be mistaken for being based on a stage play.…
In 2019, the documentary filmmaker Penny Lane donated one of her kidneys as part of an altruistic donor program, meaning the organ would be…
A cautionary tale of Hollywood hubris that’s essentially been lost to time — thus negating its effectiveness as said cautionary tale — Dick Powell’s…
Spare a thought for the enfant terrible who finds themselves just this side of respectable. The filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has, over the past 15…
Playing exactly how one expects a film inspired by a book of photography might, Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders is a series of striking images of a…
When Russia invaded Ukraine in the winter of 2022, it was widely observed how accepting bordering nations were of millions of displaced Ukrainians fleeing…
A French drama exploring a complicated, ultimately toxic marriage told from the perspective of a desperate wife and mother, Valérie Donzelli’s Just the Two…
An angry young girl runs away, leaving behind an affluent but troubled home life to throw in her lot with unsupervised older teenagers and…
With obituaries for theatrical filmgoing being filed on an almost weekly basis, it’s worthwhile to recall that we’re but six years removed from a…
Adapted from a 2001 article published in Texas Monthly and very loosely inspired by the life of law enforcement personnel Gary Johnson, Richard Linklater’s…
It must be stated that Jerry Seinfeld’s hugely popular, eponymous sitcom about four superficial and self-involved New Yorkers, Seinfeld (perhaps you’ve heard of it)…
It’s a family affair in Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat, with the actor-turned-writer-director building the film around his daughter Maya Hawke’s performance as Southern Gothic author…
The lynchpin scene in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, an overheated yet deliciously entertaining sports drama, arrives around 30 minutes into the film and finds our three…
One of the great “what ifs?” for filmgoers of a certain age is the now somewhat faded-from-memory Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino collaboration From Dusk Till…
As the sixth official installment in the long running The Omen theatrical franchise — this film is preceded by Richard Donner’s Oscar-winning 1976 original, three…
The rare eagerly anticipated sequel to a hit documentary, Girls State, from filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, understandably exists in the shadow of…