Close discusses coming to understand Mamaw as a person, her views of politics in film, and more.
Hillbilly Elegy feels like a bland feel-good story rather than one part of a longer tragedy with no clear end.
Sometimes it’s important to just step back and pay your respects to a remarkable actress.
Mother and daughter discuss the sacrifices women make for men.
The Wife beats us over the head with a morality tale of women not standing a chance in the workplace.
The old family friends discuss working together and how women have been treated in Hollywood and how that’s changing.
Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s film is ultimately a genre item that operates on alternately prestigious and campy autopilot.
Tommy Wirkola’s film squanders an evocative premise in favor of rote gun-fu carnage.
Director Colm McCarthy’s The Girl with All the Gifts is a tedious exercise in dystopian chic.
Glenn Close’s face teems with a flawlessly controlled gravitas that’s completely at odds with the film’s ordinariness.
Tim Blake Nelson’s film immerses itself into as many pain-induced (and painful) subplots as it possibly can.
Ironically, the mildness of writer-director Victor Levin’s film turns out to be its most engaging quality.
Over the past decade, MacKinnon has become an expert at staging the work of, arguably, our greatest living dramatist.
Low Down is bereft of any unique insights that would distinguish it from Round Midnight, Bird, and other jazz-inflected junkie docudramas.
Jeremiah was a bullfrog and the film should have stayed on ice, but the new 4K transfer from the Criterion should give fans enough reason to reunite.
Robins’s 30-year career, with a new leading role season after season, is studded with indelible performances.
This is a rogues gallery that runs the gamut from clingy patient to schizo serviceman.
This final season of Damages ups the ante by conflating a banking scam with the murky legality of a WikiLeaks-like website.
At this point, being a Meryl Streep diehard who also cares about Oscar hoopla is a kind of brutal self-flagellation.
If you want a good cross-section of Oscar habits, look no further than this year’s top five candidates for Best Actress.