Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi work finds its chief pleasures as a cinema of the hyperreal. Aliens, robots, and impossibly cool implements of destruction exist fiftee...
The Holocaust is one of the most exhaustively documented events in history, yet it can seemingly never be documented enough. This is not only due to the relent...
In the procedural genre, where “bad cops” frequently reveal themselves to be law-enforcement geniuses, it remains shockingly refreshing to see a film where the...
Neil Burger, director of 2014’s YA adaptation Divergent, returns to the form of teeny-bopper dystopian parable with Voyagers, a sci-fi thriller combining 60s-v...
It is by now a cliché observation that American TV drama maps cleanly into eras of pre- and post-Sopranos, but the march of history hasn’t made it any less tru...
Three years after the self-proclaimed final chapter in their long-running Resident Evil saga, B-movie power couple Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich are ba...
One of the more bizarre international scandals of recent years is the February 2017 assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, the exiled former heir to late North Korean ...
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (let’s call it Borat) took the English-speaking comedy world by storm in 20...
Apples is set in a world where digital technology seems not to exist, yet the psychic imprint of the digital age hangs heavy over first-time director Christos ...
A timely but confusing mess of styles, tones, and subject matter, Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods zigzags between the director’s trademark topical diatribes on race an...
