‘Raising Cain’: Brian De Palma’s Audacious Role-Playing Experiment

We look at the pitless audacity of De Palma’s sublime experimental film....

[Review] Bad Moms

Subversive in passages, Bad Moms is a fairly paint-by-numbers affair with all the beats that years of test audiences have told Hollywood they need to include, f...

World in Action: A Paul Greengrass Retrospective

As he returns to Bourne, we look at the films of Paul Greengrass....

[Review] Lights Out

A solid hook is one of the biggest factors in what makes a successful film pitch. This doesn’t guarantee a film will end up being good, but it’s a place that ca...

The 50 Best Sci-Fi Films of the 21st Century Thus Far

We count down our favorite science-fiction films of the millennium so far....

[Review] The Shallows

The sun is shining on a pristine, secluded beach -- a kind of cove consisting of white sand, a coral reef, and an outlying island that looks like a woman in rep...

[Review] Clown

Inside Out notwithstanding, it’s been awhile since cinema attempted to make clowns scary again, or at least use them as the central focus of a horror piece. Che...

[Review] Finding Dory

The ocean is a big, diverse setting for a movie, consisting as it does of environments both brutal and beautiful. In Finding Nemo, one of its most celebrated fi...

[Review] The Blackcoat’s Daughter

Osgood Perkins’ debut feature, The Blackcoat’s Daughter - originally known as February at its premiere at TIFF last year - is a stylish exercise in dread, teas...

Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow Talk the Form and Function of ‘De Palma’

We talk to the directors behind the year's essential documentary....