Venice Review: Kevin Costner Is Going Strong With Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2
How blessed are we to have a whole six hours of Kevin Costner’s mythopoetic Horizon already make their way to (some) audiences, especially ...
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TIFF Review: Joseph Kahn’s Ick is a Riotous, Satirical Take on the Creature Feature
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 mak...
TIFF Review: David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers is a Frustratingly Contrived Affair
David Gordon Green’s career is one of the most unpredictable in Hollywood. Since his masterful and celebrated debut George Washington, he's...
TIFF Review: Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Has One Yearning for Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60
“Can satire save the Republic?”— May 2017 cover story of The Atlantic featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump
“Mad TV would have done a ...
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TIFF Review: Relay Sets Riz Ahmed in a Kinetic Thriller
You always hear about whistleblowers––those who smuggle documentation for the benefit of the public out of corporations trying to make or save a buck at the ex...
TIFF Review: Heretic is a Chamber Piece of Subversions Exploring the Concept of God
Missionary work has always fascinated me. Not when it’s performed abroad as a means of indoctrinating people who might otherwise be unaware. I mean here, in Am...
Venice Review: Asif Kapadia’s 2073 Is a Mishandled, Dimwitted Look at the Foreboding Future
Asif Kapadia––the biographical documentary wiz behind contemporary classics like Senna and Amy––opens his semi-fictional film 2073 in a flurry of doc footage. ...
U.S. Trailer for Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-Winning Dahomey Gives Voice to Art
Arguably the most surprising Golden Bear winner in ages was Mati Diop's Dahomey, a documentary-of-sorts concerning royal treasures taken from the century-gone ...
Sebastian Stan is Donald Trump in the First Trailer for The Apprentice
After some behind-the-scenes battles, Ali Abbasi's Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice will indeed see the light of day before this year's election. Premiering ...
Cinephile Game Night Returns to 62nd New York Film Festival
With the 62nd New York Film Festival just a few weeks away, one of my favorite moments between the movies is connecting with the dedicated, passionate, cinema-...
TIFF Review: Barry Keoghan Can’t Save the Thoroughly Unpleasant Bring Them Down
Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down is an endurance test with no payoff. Opening with a jarring car crash on a windy road in rural Ireland, the film soon adds...
TIFF Review: The Return Marks a Languid Reunion for Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche
The true pits of '90s nostalgia are maybe here, as we’re in the year 2024 arriving at an attempt to hype an English Patient reunion. Yes, that’ll be music to t...
Venice Review: Neo Sora’s Happyend Poignantly Explores our Responses to an Impending Future
“Something big is about to change,” is surely one ominous beginning for a debut fiction feature, but director Neo Sora knows how to calibrate the fine balance ...
John Woo Will Direct Sparks’ Musical X Crucior
It's been long enough since Sparks revealed their Annette follow-up X Crucior that you're forgiven for thinking it might've been shelved. I talked to them abou...