Mike Leigh is nothing if not an expert at conceiving (in conjunction with talented actors) a certain kind of larger-than-life character. Well, larger-than-life...
Fielding questions about Kubi, a period piece chronicling a few years of internecine feudal wars in 16th-century Japan, Takeshi Kitano dismissed some rumors he...
Early last year, a theory started doing the rounds: if comic-book movies have lost their sheen, might video-game adaptations take their place? Two of the bigge...
In a twist for the ages, the greatest joke of Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel––which contains far fewer punchlines than the first, regardless of how they land––is ...
A ruthlessly efficient thriller fueled by boiling rage, Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge wastes no time setting the stakes. Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) is liste...
Where’s the filth? I wrote down the question on page two of my notes, roughly about when Queer entered its second chapter, sending Lee (Daniel Craig) and his y...
Killers of the Flower Moon's epilogue felt like the last word on true crime: a director with several based-on-a-true-story tales to his name emerging from behi...
It’s fall 1983 in the Pacific Northwest, a historical hotbed for white poverty and white-power mobilization. Flannels flow like wine, backcountry bowl cut-adja...
In life and in cinema, Pedro Almodóvar likes to talk about death. When people aren't losing their faculties in his films––like going blind (Folle... folle... f...
The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles developed I’m Still Here for seven years before it premiered as part of Venice's Main Competition this year. That...
