The film is a celebration of people’s desire for everything that’s beautiful and fleeting in life.
Wiseman discusses how his latest documentary relates to frequent fascinations in his work.
The film demonstrates Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglia’s theory of “paranoid fiction.”
Wish plays out like the No Frills version of a Disney princess story.
Kore-eda’s film is perched precariously between gentle humanism and contrived sentimentality.
Scott cares only for the set pieces, as evinced by the listless mediocrity that surrounds them.
Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is a slasher for today, slickly made, coolly mean, and with a satiric bite.
Taika Waititi’s frivolous humor is but an extra kick while the film’s poor bastards are down.
Few R-rated horror films released in 2023 are as vicious as this one is.
Throughout, Glauber Rocha calls on us to imagine what we’d want a revolution to look like.
Style is an end in itself across Paul Vecchiali’s moody, labyrinthine The Strangler.
Haynes discusses the repetitions that abound in the film and the search for emotional truth.
This is the tragic tale of a deeply flawed individual who became a casualty of his own excess.
The film blends popular and academic conversations with great ease and precision.
Borgli discusses his beef with the advertising industry, Nicolas Cage’s iconography, and more.
On the occasion of the release of The Marvels, we ranked all the films in the MCU.
The film tries to pass off bombastic provocations as a substitute for interesting observations.