Poor Things, the second collaboration between Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and Oscar-winner Emma Stone, is an ecstatically subversive fantasy that imagines how an adult woman might relate to the world if she had somehow sidestepped years of social indoctrination. Beginning in a Gilliamesque version of Victorian era London dappled with whimsy and wonder, Poor […]

Dream Scenario is a smart and insightful film about human nature, and marks another late-career high point for Nicolas Cage.

Stop Making Sense remains one of the most supremely satisfying concert movies ever made.

Barbie is a gleefully subversive look at the dehumanizing effects of inequality

Oppenheimer is a riveting cinematic experience

  Midway through Asteroid City, Wes Anderson’s latest experiment in Brechtian distancing, a young girl is given a Rorschach test. Within every inkblot, she sees variations of the same thing. Detractors of Anderson’s work can undoubtedly relate to her; one of their main criticisms is that all of his films are more or less the […]

  If Travis Bickle – the antihero Paul Schrader created for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver – had an affair with a horticulturist, their love child might resemble Narvel Roth, the subject of Schrader’s latest film, Master Gardener. Travis and Narvel document their obsessive thoughts in journals, both are products of their violent pasts, and neither […]

Blackberry dramatizes the breathtaking rise and fall of the company behind the innovative communication device.

If you’re a fan of impressive world building done on a spectacular scale, Dune definitely delivers the goods.

  Suspenseful. Funny. Meditative. Disturbing. Mysterious: five adjectives that describe EO, the latest movie from the renowned Polish filmmaker, Jerzy Skolimowski. And yet, it’s challenging to explain how watching EO, which follows a donkey on a journey guided by the hand of man and fate, creates an experience greater than the sum of its parts. […]