This epic examination of old-fashioned American greed gets a ravishing transfer from Criterion.
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Review: James Cameron’s Bloodless, Expensive-Looking Behemoth
Cameron’s Fire and Ash is effectively a three-hour-plus series of climaxes.
‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Quietly Melancholic Family Triptych
Jarmusch’s latest is haunted by mortality and the inevitable passage of time.
Think of Lighton’s Pillion as a BDSM spin on Brief Encounter.
Denis approaches a simple setup via a discordant melding of cinematic and stagy modes.
As Bruce Springsteen, Jeremy Allen White is all slouched posture and distant stares.
‘One Battle After Another’ Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Overstuffed Satirical Knickknack
This “loose adaptation” of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland turns overreaching into an art form.
‘Nosferatu’ Review: Robert Eggers’s Evocatively Cloistered Homage to a Horror Classic
Eggers’s cinema has an aesthetic ravenousness about it that’s both stylish and sequestered.
‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow’ Review: A Trenchant Reality Show
The drama of the film is a literal life and death struggle that’s exceedingly of this moment.
In Guadagnino’s latest, the queer, tragically, becomes quotidian.
The film is a handsomely mounted production in which much of the filth feels stage-managed.
Warner’s disc looks magnificent in native 4K with Dolby Vision enhancement.
In a Violent Nature Review: A Thrillingly Cryptic and Evocative Act of Genre Resuscitation
Think of Chris Nash’s film as Béla Tarr doing an unholy doc-fiction hybrid about Crystal Lake.
‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Review: George Miller’s Prequel Will Get Your Motor Running
The film attests to Miller’s enduring aptitude for utilizing the ridiculous to achieve the sublime.
‘The Color Purple’ Review: Blitz Bazawule’s Fawning Movie Musical Is Echo-Chamber Karaoke
The film lacks the passion and the perspective to make the words and tunes truly resonate.
‘Godzilla Minus One’ Review: A Perverse Throwback That Will Satiate Your Lizard Brain
For all the unbridled destruction, Godzilla Minus One remains perversely light and fun.
The sense of concurrent being and non-being is key to the Michael Mann aesthetic and ethos.
Scorsese’s engrossing historical thriller is a three-hander on an epic canvas.
‘Eureka’ Review: Lisandro Alonso’s Intoxicating, Time-Hopping Reverie of Indigenous Realities
The metaphysical realm governs the non-ideal world inhabited by each of Eureka’s characters.
The Pigeon Tunnel Review: Errol Morris and John le Carré Take on a World of Contradictions
The sense of getting nowhere proves crucial to grasping le Carré in all his impish glory.