It’s been over 40 years since Chinatown, and roughly the same amount of time separates the events of that film from those of The Nice Guys, another tale of a pr...
After Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper confirms Olivier Assayas as the director most adept at drawing the best out of Kristen Stewart. Here she follows in...
Everybody knows Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher. When Disney bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas and announced they'd be producing a new Star Wars ...
When you think of short stories like W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw" or Richard Matheson's "Button, Button" (adapted to the small screen for The Twilight Zone a...
The staggeringly accomplished debut feature by Brazilian critic-turned-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, Neighboring Sounds, announced the arrival of a remarkable...
The most fascinating part of Steve Hoover's latest documentary Almost Holy is how its subject Gennadiy Mokhnenko parallels the life of well-known Russian cartoo...
A woman recalls the pivotal moments of her adult life in Julieta, the latest film from Pedro Almodóvar and his fifth to screen in competition here in Cannes. It...
Scot Armstrong’s Search Party, which is packed to the gils with comedic talent -- most of whom, thankfully, have found work that’s more tailored to their abili...
David McKenzie’s Hell or High Water is a gritty, darkly humorous, and fiendishly violent neo-western. Or, in other words, the type of film you might expect from...
In his Village Voice review of Jim Jarmusch’s criminally under-appreciated The Limits of Control, J. Hoberman described the director as “a full-blown talent er...
