A report from San Diego Comic-Con on the Doctor Who panel, featuring Jodie Whittaker. | Continue reading
An article about the Criterion Collection's 39-film box set, "Ingmar Bergman's Cinema," to be released on November 20th with snippets of Roger Ebert's reviews of certain films | Continue reading
A report from San Diego Comic-Con on this year's panel of film and TV composers. | Continue reading
You’ll forget you saw it before it’s even over. | Continue reading
This is one of the year’s best movies. | Continue reading
It will likely fall through the cracks a bit between “After the Storm” and “Shoplifters,” but it’s worth the time for fans of Hirokazu Kore-eda, a group that seems to be growing every day. | Continue reading
A punishing and unrewarding experience. | Continue reading
Greenfield wraps up this compulsively watchable movie with observations of family love and some of its characters striving for redemption and/or an honest living. | Continue reading
People can find ways to be happy now because they have more choices, more resources. In a world that seems in many respects to be headed to hell in a handbasket, that’s a fact worth celebrating, and this movie does so in an appropriately humane manner. | Continue reading
The non-stop, navel-gazing, faux philosophical dialogue about love starts to feel like some strange experiment itself. | Continue reading
Why "Eighth Grade" Gets It Right; Olivier Assayas on "Cold Water"; Europe's rising nationalism; Michael Dinner on "L.A. Confidential"; Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote. | Continue reading
A preview of New York City's upcoming Japan Cuts festival, which runs from July 19-29. | Continue reading
What's new on Blu-ray and streaming services, including A Quiet Place, Rampage, You Were Never Really Here, and Lean on Pete. | Continue reading
For all its frantic energy, it manages to go absolutely nowhere. | Continue reading
Reviews from Fantasia of an American slacker chamber piece, a time travel comedy from New Zealand, and a ghostly comedy from Japan. | Continue reading
A review from Fantasia of three wildly different films, including the Korean arm-wrestling movie "Champion." | Continue reading
Even the most easily satisfied fans of Washington will be unlikely to find much of anything in this sadistic, stupid and sloppy sequel. | Continue reading
A review of Friday's new Netflix series, Dark Tourist. | Continue reading
A look at Escape to Victory in light of the World Cup and world events. | Continue reading
An excerpt from Jason Bailey's new book, "It's Okay With Me: Hollywood, The 1970s, and the Return of the Private Eye." | Continue reading
An interview with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, stars and co-writers of "Blindspotting." | Continue reading
Reviews of three films shown at the Fantasia International Film Festival, including the world premiere of an Indonesian "Django Unchained." | Continue reading
Reviews from Fantasia of a sequel to "Unfriended," a horror anthology sequel, and a different take on the zombie survival story. | Continue reading
Trust me, you’re better off not even beginning. | Continue reading
Eighth Grade is so grounded in the reality of middle school it almost operates like a horrible collective flashback. | Continue reading
Van Sant the screenwriter does a disservice to the material by constantly chopping up narrative strands into bite-size chunks and later circling back to key incidents. | Continue reading
One is left feeling that this is the generically structured and tamer “approved” version of a much richer story. | Continue reading
Sometimes you have to wonder if it’s the director’s actual inability to set up a mood, or if he just doesn’t care. | Continue reading
Though the subject is indeed important, the filmmaking here is so pedestrian, flat-footed and overly-obvious as to leave Shock and Awe one of those second-rate dramatic movies that make you wish that it had been a topnotch documentary instead. | Continue reading
It’s not an insult to call this an exemplary PBS documentary; let’s just say you should make sure you are really in the MOOD for a PBS doc before you check out Dark Money. | Continue reading
A hell of a good time in its own right. | Continue reading
A report from Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival about two opening night films, "Just a Breath Away" and "Nightmare Cinema." | Continue reading
It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful? | Continue reading
As Bo Burnham’s examination of middle school malaise “Eighth Grade” hits cinemas, it’s worth considering the breadth of films that examine the teenage experience. | Continue reading
A sneak peek of the films we'll be covering at Montreal's exciting Fantasia International Film Festival. | Continue reading
An interview with Bo Burnham, who makes his debut as a writer and director with the adolescent comedy, "Eighth Grade." | Continue reading
It has only a hazy idea of what it wants to be about. | Continue reading
An article about the July 14th gala honoring Chicago International Film Festival founder and CEO Michael Kutza. | Continue reading
Most people over the age of 12 will check out from the plot midway and start hoping for a cinematic vacation of their own. | Continue reading
A chat with Charlie Plummer, star of Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete. | Continue reading
An essay about James Ivory's "A Room with a View," as excerpted from the latest edition of the online magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room. | Continue reading
A tribute to the late Tab Hunter, a gay matinee idol and Hollywood trailblazer. | Continue reading
A feature on the 17th New York Asian Film Festival. | Continue reading
An interview with writer/director Boots Riley about his incendiary new film, "Sorry to Bother You." | Continue reading
A dispatch from the 2018 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, featuring coverage of closing night, a conversation with Barry Levinson, and reviews of "Putin's Witnesses," "Museum," "Climax" and "Cold War." | Continue reading
An interview with Caleb Landry Jones and Peter Brunner, star and director of "To the Night," at the 2018 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. | Continue reading