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James L. Brooks' Ella McCay is a spectacular failure for the once great director.
Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet is maudlin and reductive, but what did you expect?
Freakier Friday is a half-decent legacy sequel that’s saved by its younger cast.
Cinema will only begin when the film industry is dead.
The Family McMullen, the most unexpected legacy sequel, is a fine follow-up to The Brothers McMullen.
My Sensei’s longest movie finally gets released in theaters for some reason.
That’s not necessarily bad.
Eternity is terminally unfunny, barely watchable, and a direct rip-off of Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life.
Marathon Man and the demise of the popular adaptation.
The textured realism of Richard Fleischer and his film The Last Run (1972).
I know what’s at the top of the list.
Left-Handed Girl is an impressive directorial debut from Shih-Ching Tsou.
Nia DaCosta has brilliantly updated Ibsen.
The Ugly Stepsister is a nasty and hilarious rebuke to the idealized version of a classic fairy tale.
The film highlights the pain that can result from falling in love with bad ideas.
The Rule of Jenny Pen is surprisingly well-executed.
As reality gets weirder, wild propaganda may get easier to sell. Or it may all be true.
Train Dreams is an elegiac, patient film that’s authentic and dreamlike in equal measure.
James Earl Jones stars in a movie marred by glib schmaltz.
New documentary Wick is Pain is a damning portrayal of the erratic conception of the John Wick franchise.
Artificial is more real than reality.
The filmmaker talks about writing a play, not rushing his last movie, and fatherhood in this January 2025 interview.
The last eight minutes of Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 masterpiece.
The actors talk to Josh Horowitz about their new movie and more.
The director of Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World talks about his new film, The Running Man, and more with Roger and James Deakins.
The cinematographer of Eyes Wide Shut talks about his extensive work on Kubrick's final film.
A half-hour documentary made during the production of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard.
The director talks about his new films Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague and more in this recent interview.
The filmmaker returns to the scene of the crime in this new video recorded by the Criterion Collection.
The filmmaker talks about New York being on the avant garde of all that's good and bad in America and more in this 1979 interview.
