Someone inside one of the UK’s intelligence agencies has stolen a device that could lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and…
In Oz Perkins’ The Monkey, a mechanical wind-up monkey that plays a drum (but don’t call it a toy) serves as a harbinger of death.…
In Scott Derrickson’s The Gorge, Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy play two of the best snipers in the world representing, respectively, the superpowers of the…
Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino has made, really, one kind of film for the majority of his career: decadent exercises in excess that observe the absurdity of…
If there was reason to be cautiously optimistic about Universal’s remake of its horror franchise Wolf Man, it was the involvement of director Leigh Whannell.…
How does one engage critically with Companion, a film whose chief attribute and function is as a plot twist delivery machine? Even its very premise…
There are reportedly more than 100 films based on Bram Stoker’s seminal 1897 novel Dracula, and the most damning thing one can say about Robert…
Halina Reijn’s Babygirl is aware of the discourse. It’s read all the articles that have been passed around online, it knows what’s considered problematic in…
The linchpin scene of Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist arrives nearly an hour into its 215-minute runtime when Adrien Brody’s Hungarian architect, László Tóth, sits down…
Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel of the same name, RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys grapples with a level of tragedy and systemic abuse…
When Black September, a fringe militant offshoot of the Palestinian liberation movement, took 11 Israeli nationals hostage, murdering all of them within 24 hours along…
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…
One of the more indelible sequences in Joshua Oppenheimer’s breakthrough documentary, The Act of Killing, features one of its subjects, the Indonesian paramilitary thug Anwar…
Clint Eastwood’s latest project Juror #2 is rumored to be his final film after nearly 70 years in the entertainment industry and having directed 40…
The perfect film for anyone who’s ever pondered the existence of a gift shop at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain is consumed…
Representing nearly a decade-long effort to bring the man who sexually assaulted her to justice, filmmaker Shiori Itō’s Black Box Diaries is primarily a firsthand and…
The title character of Sean Baker’s Anora notably does not go by that name for most of the film, and appears uncomfortable when male characters…
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…
One approaches the release of Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice with equal parts morbid curiosity and dread. Mired in what was almost certainly expected controversy since…
In the annals of very real films that sound like they should be 30 Rock jokes, a feature-length documentary on the life of mega-producer and multi-platinum…