Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 BFI London coverage. The Summer Book opens in theaters on September 19.
In Charlie McDowell’s...
No festival in the world wears its history on its sleeve quite like Sarajevo. Sitting in for a screening of La Grande Bellezza (after Paolo Sorrentino had rath...
In The Lost Bus, the latest propulsive and sweat-inducing disaster thriller from Paul Greengrass, a few electric sparks from a major power line hit dry wee...
It’s a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Steve (Cillian Murphy). As the headmaster at Stanton Wood, a boarding school for troubled young men, he sh...
Coming-of-age tales are a genre with little recent innovation. Yet Singaporean-American filmmaker Siyou Tan finds remarkable specificity and novelty in her Sin...
At barely two years old, Harmony Korine’s “post-cinema” company EDGLRD is already branching out. After directing AGGRO DR1FT and Baby Invasion, Korine take...
My friend (and Film Stage Managing Editor) Nick Newman likes the term “counterfeit money” to describe certain movies. Be it The Batman or Ben Affleck's oeuvre,...
You can’t accuse John Early of not committing. Through the majority of his acting career, the comedian has become a reliable avatar for a palpable, toxic, ...
It’s a fleeting, impermanent moment. At a concert, Fleur (Nina Meurisse) locks eyes with Julian (Laurence Roothooft) just as she takes her seat, and suddenly a...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The History of Sound opens in theaters on September 12.
It’s strange to hear...
