The astounding and virtually unclassifiable movie from Elaine May gets the Criterion treatment. | Continue reading
A full list of the nominations for the 2019 Academy Awards. | Continue reading
What will lead the way tomorrow morning? Let us look into our crystal ball. | Continue reading
It’s the kind of movie that will make “Underrated” lists in ten months. Don’t wait that long. See it now. | Continue reading
Once you get over the icky feeling that making a movie about Brexit in early 2019 is kind of like making a movie about a raging wildfire before it’s been put out, HBO’s Brexit is an interesting examination of how we got here. | Continue reading
There is startlingly little depth to be found in An Acceptable Loss, which feels gripping only if you compare it to a random couple of hours on C-SPAN. | Continue reading
A review of the new Limited Edition Blu-ray release of Crimson Peak. | Continue reading
Close is strong on all counts, until it seems to lose its nerve and decide to explain a character who was more compelling when the film let her be a lethal question mark. | Continue reading
We get a view of the naked emperor from his many, many servants and it’s incredibly damning to say the least. | Continue reading
Jodie Whittaker's performance humanizes the film’s troubled protagonist better than the story. | Continue reading
The Moon deserves better symbolism. | Continue reading
The Last Man is a thoroughly unpleasant experience from start to finish, and not even in an artful way. | Continue reading
IO isn’t science fiction storytelling distilled so much as it is vaporized. | Continue reading
Regardless of its missteps, Grossman’s film should be seen as a necessary introduction to a multitude of stories warranting greater analysis. | Continue reading
An article about MoMA's To Save and Project Restoration Festival and its January 18th screening of "Cane River." | Continue reading
A review of the second season of Netflix's The Punisher. | Continue reading
A piece from a Far-Flung Correspondent on The Lion in Winter. | Continue reading
Glass is a misfire, and it’s the kind of depressing misfire that hurts even more given what it could have been. | Continue reading
A review of the new Syfy series Deadly Class, which premieres on January 16. | Continue reading
An often hilarious and incisive treatise on Millennial hubris. | Continue reading
A review of Showtime's Black Monday, starring Don Cheadle, Regina Hall, and Andrew Rannells. | Continue reading
It is in the unspoken where The Heiresses is its most powerful. | Continue reading
Sarah Knight Adamson reports from Santa Monica, CA on the winners and speeches at last weekend's Critics' Choice Awards. | Continue reading
An essay about the five screen versions of "A Star Is Born," and why George Cukor's 1954 masterpiece still reigns supreme. | Continue reading
An interview with R.L. Stine about Goosebumps: Haunted Halloween. | Continue reading
An essay by Fran Hoepfner on Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Free Solo, as excerpted from the latest issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room. | Continue reading
Emma González's confidence; Cost of erasing cyber-reality; Barry Jenkins on "Beale Street"; Becoming parents; Oakton College's pop-up film festival. | Continue reading
An interview with Lukas Dhont, director/co-writer of "Girl." | Continue reading
A brief tribute to the brilliance of Shawn Ryan's The Shield now that it's available on Blu-ray. | Continue reading
A look back through Christian Bale's filmography, highlighting five roles that define his career. | Continue reading
A good dog movie with its heart in the right place, just like any nameless canine regardless of its breed. | Continue reading
Touch Me Not is definitely abstract and intellectualized, although I didn't find it exploitative. But so much of the film left me cold, even bored. | Continue reading
While Buffalo Boys may not be everything it could have been, it is sometimes good enough. | Continue reading
There’s no sense of character richness, only of simplistic functions within a glum parable. | Continue reading
The film’s premise is simple yet made suspenseful with a 21st Century twist. | Continue reading
Sincerity of purpose, the best of intentions and brief appearances by top talent cannot save a real first pancake of a script in “SGT. Will Gardner." | Continue reading
An excerpt from the new book about HBO's legendary TV series, The Sopranos. | Continue reading
Rockaway relies on blunt sentimentality and awkwardly, expressly warps its own story inspired by true events to be adoption-ready for Stand By Me fans. | Continue reading
It made me want someone else’s consciousness embedded into my own to endure it. | Continue reading
A tribute to Andrea Riseborough's stunning 2018. | Continue reading
The latest on Blu-ray and streaming services, including 24 Frames, Mid90s, and White Boy Rick. | Continue reading
A hollow replica of its source material. | Continue reading
A review of the third season of True Detective, starring Mahershala Ali. | Continue reading
A review of the first two episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine's sixth season after moving to NBC. | Continue reading
A preview of the 1st Iranian Film Festival, running this weekend in New York. | Continue reading
An interview with the directors of Lost & Found, and a presentation of the stop-motion short film. | Continue reading