The “old world” is a wasteland. People still live there, but not for very long. Those in the “new world” live hundreds of ...
The level of enjoyment audience members will have with Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship is tied directly to their tolerance for ...
The twisty political thriller Conclave wastes little time getting right into it: the Pope is dead, and after a three-week ...
Andrews’ Bring Them Down is an endurance test with no payoff. Opening with a jarring car crash on a windy road in rural ...
Mike Leigh is nothing if not an expert at conceiving (in conjunction with talented actors) a certain kind of larger-than-life ...
I always find it difficult to write about performances. Whenever I try I feel like I’m merely describing an actor’s work––how ...
May 2017 cover story of The Atlantic featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump “Mad TV would have done a Barron Trump School ...
On paper, there are few filmmakers who seem less-suited to the rigors of a project like Eden than Ron Howard. This is the ...
Lee Daniels wants to do it all. The filmmaker behind Monster’s Ball, Precious, and The Butler has made an endlessly compelling horror movie, The Deliverance, for Netflix, starring Andra Day, Glenn ...
The world is ending and nobody cares in Ick, Joseph Kahn’s latest genre offering after 2017’s Bodied and 2011’s Detention. Despite only making four features in 20 years, Kahn is ubiquitous in pop ...
Arguably the most surprising Golden Bear winner in ages was Mati Diop's Dahomey, a documentary-of-sorts concerning royal ...
With the 62nd New York Film Festival just a few weeks away, one of my favorite moments between the movies is connecting with ...