It’s been a tough year. Hope you and yours have been safe, and able to enjoy plenty of art, folks. A ton of movies have come out, and I’ve seen plenty, though a lot of awards fare hasn’t really struck...
What a year for the movies, and for intense reflection, both individually and collectively, about filmmaker’s own selves and the crises we are all living through. In composing my list, I tried to talk less about the things most critics...
It’s the middle of the Cannes Film Festival and it seems directors’ greatest fear today is not criticism but rather the modern malaise of spoiler culture. Bong Joon-Ho’s latest is preceded by a letter from the South Korean director himself,...
I know you’re expecting this fable to start in the summer of ’69. After all, that’s when the story you know happens, well, happens. But things started going wrong a bit before and when we first meet TV actor Rick...
Not since the Overlook hotel appeared on screen has any piece of remote real estate been so ominous and obviously dangerous as the simple, weather-beaten lighthouse on the coast of Maine that sits atop a cragged landscape in Robert Eggers’...
The Turner family, typically blue-collar and traditional (a husband, a wife, a teenage son and a ten year old daughter), are about to try for a more ambitious lot in life when Ricky (Kris Hitchen) realizes that, the way things...
Something threatening hangs over the village of Bacurau, in western Pernambuco. But perhaps no one cares. After all, in the near future, it has been literally erased from the map. When the new film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, this time...
Those familiar with the work of American auteur Jim Jarmusch know what they’re headed into with his new film, The Dead Don’t Die, a chronicle of a small town that slowly becomes overrun with zombies. His apparent incursion into a new...