Shrouded in a veil of secrecy up until its Japanese release this past July, Hayao Miyazaki's first feature in a decade and potentially the 82-year-old director...
One of the most visually ravishing movies I saw at Sundance Film Festival early this year was C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s Mami Wata, "A West Afrikan Folklore," as our...
Since it first terrorized Tokyo in Ishirō Honda’s 1954 film, Godzilla has faced off against nearly every single kaiju known to man—Mothra, Ghidorah, Megalon, G...
Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismäki's first film since 2017’s The Other Side of Hope, took home the Jury Prize from this year's Cannes while charming critics more th...
Bearing talent equal to the totemic filmmakers of his time hasn't, all these decades hence, helped Ousmane Sembène achieve their cultural, academic, cinephilic...
Word on Wim Wenders' Perfect Days is strong––stronger than any fiction feature he's made since, God, who can even count. But though its Cannes premiere nabbed ...
For whatever reason there's been surprisingly little hype about an Errol Morris documentary on John le Carré––a crowded fall season? that Steve Bannon thing le...
Despite its awards acclaim, the critical response to Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman was a bit all-over-the-place. The Oscar winner is now ba...
Few movies this year loom like Ferrari, the long-awaited and much-delayed return of Michael Mann. Ahead of its Venice premiere, New York Film Festival showing,...
While her directorial debut Ithaca arrived nearly a decade ago with not too much fanfare, Meg Ryan is back this fall in a genre she knows well. The rom-com Wha...
