A review of two Sundance stand-outs about creatives and the passive-aggressive wars they wage. | Continue reading
Kantemir Balagov has the confidence to tell his story chiefly through the faces of his characters as well as their placement in the frame, thereby making the dialogue of secondary importance. | Continue reading
A review of two very online films that had their world premiere at Sundance. | Continue reading
A dispatch from Sundance on two films competing in the World Cinema Dramatic category. | Continue reading
A review of two horror films that had their world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. | Continue reading
An interview with Justin Simien, writer/director of "Bad Hair." | Continue reading
An interview with Kantemir Balagov, director/co-writer of "Beanpole." | Continue reading
A review of three docuseries that premiered at Sundance - they're all great. | Continue reading
A dispatch from the Sundance Film Festival on two films competing in the World Cinema Documentary category. | Continue reading
All of our coverage of the Sundance Film Festival. | Continue reading
On two Sundance Dramatic Competition films. | Continue reading
Like listening to someone else tell you about their dream. | Continue reading
A review of three films from the U.S. Documentary Competition program of Sundance. | Continue reading
From Sundance, a dispatch about the latest films from Miranda July and Kirsten Johnson. | Continue reading
Promising Young Woman is as confident as its protagonist, a film that’s willing to be a little messy and inconsistent in a way that reflects Cassie’s existence. | Continue reading
A review of two political documentaries from major filmmakers that had their world premieres on Friday. | Continue reading
A review of three star-studded films from Sundance. | Continue reading
On three docs at Sundance about The Go-Go's, Ren & Stimpy, and the Mirandas. | Continue reading
It’s a fun movie to spend time with, and I don’t think it needs to add up to much more than that. | Continue reading
A review of two of the first films of Sundance 2020, Bad Hair and Miss Juneteenth. | Continue reading
With stunning performances from two completely genuine young leads, this is a movie people will talk about all year. | Continue reading
Thrilling and charming in a way that very few American comedies ever are. | Continue reading
An interview with Hal Hartley, in anticipation of an upcoming retrospective at the Metrograph. | Continue reading
Chaz Ebert reveals her Top Ten (PLUS) Films of 2019. | Continue reading
Two reviews from the opening night of Sundance 2020. | Continue reading
Lana Wilson's doc is engineered to appease her fans and promote Swift's self-awareness, and yet it leaves one feeling that there is still so much more to be discussed about what makes Taylor Swift who she is. | Continue reading
There's much that is legitimately funny in The Gentlemen and much that is legitimately disturbing. | Continue reading
If The Turning leaves you screaming, it’ll probably be out of frustration over its abrupt, unsatisfying ending and not the actual frights that precede it. | Continue reading
A good, but not great story about counter-culture, as it’s experienced by members of a dominant culture. | Continue reading
Writer-director Todd Robinson spins this tale of heroism with a lot of purple sentiment but surprisingly little of the jingoism expected from a film like this. | Continue reading
I Wish I Knew functions as an admirable cinematic tone poem about a place and its times. | Continue reading
The kind of audacious and deliriously messed-up work that fans of Stanley, Cage, and cult cinema have been rooting for ever since the existence of the project became known. | Continue reading
A TV review of Star Trek: Picard. | Continue reading
The latest on Blu-ray and streaming includes The Addams Family, Pain and Glory, and Gemini Man. | Continue reading
A tribute to the late, great Terry Jones. | Continue reading
A dispatch from the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, featuring reviews of Kourosh Ahari’s "The Night" and Andrew Davis' "Mentors—Tony & Santi." | Continue reading
A look ahead at 20 films we're excited to see at this year's Sundance Film Festival. | Continue reading
Theo Angelopoulos’ Landscape in the Mist is a work of art that comes from the feelings, the dreams, the sorrows, and the flashes of life that we experience every day. | Continue reading
An interview with Gil Robertson, president of the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), which will hold its 11th annual ceremony on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020. | Continue reading
This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated. | Continue reading
A review of FOX's 9-1-1: Lone Star, starring Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler. | Continue reading
A wild whirlwind of a mess, without any coherence, without even a guiding principle. | Continue reading
Shinkai and his collaborators’ ability to accentuate the positive is what makes Weathering With You mostly satisfying. | Continue reading
Pleasant enough but never quite as emotionally gripping as a coming-of-age story about acceptance can be, Troop Zero scores a handful of memorable moments when it lets its freak flag fly. | Continue reading
It’s a movie designed to replicate the confusion of its protagonist, but ultimately reflects the confusion of everyone who made it. | Continue reading
A dull-as-dishwater, paint-by-numbers cinematic hiccup with no discernible reason for being. | Continue reading