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Like a heavily abused Hypercolor t-shirt crawled out of a sewer and got tangled in a rat’s nest of videogame cables on its way toward achieving sentience.
Bertrand Bonello’s century-spanning tryptic is nothing if not inventive, but it’s sometimes hard to find the emotion in the high aesthetics. But maybe the chilly gulf and the impossibility of deep simultaneous connections is exactly the point.
Miyazaki takes an autobiographical bow with an enchanting story of a boy confronting the tragedies of war, death, loss of youth, and so many asshole birds.
One of the many celebrity-driven “based on a true story” films to dominate this year’s festival, Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx make this tall tale of a small businessman vs. Big Funeral watchable.
Vicky Krieps brings indomitable spirit to a cipher pioneer woman in Viggo Mortensen’s meandering and mournful memory piece of whisper thin western archetypes.
Like gay culture gained sentience while crawling from a sewer drain through a pile of cocaine and glitter. Unlike the previous review, I mean this as the highest compliment!
Nicolas Cage is currently on an incredible run of having the best, most interesting, time reckoning with his own fame on film.
It’s a provocative title: Evil does not exist. Or does it? And is it glamping? Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s latest film is a mesmerizing interrogation of these questions that plays out like an enrapturing museum piece.
Was 2020 really three years ago? The early days of the pandemic, essential workers, uncertain isolation, pods, and individuals speculating on the stock market with stimulus checks feels like both yesterday and a lifetime ago.
Richard Linklater serves up a very tasty slice of an incredibly loopy premise. Glen Powell gobbles it up and makes it work through the power of pure, unrelenting, leading man handsomeness.
Alexander Payne’s latest leans hard into 1970s nostalgia with a memory piece set at a New England boarding school during a chilly break when most residents have gone home for the holidays … three lonely souls find themselves abandoned on the drafty campus, each too prickly to have a clue how to keep each other warm.
In the title role of Lee Miller, Kate Winslet embodies the humanity of a pioneering photographer who was driven to bravely document the front lines of World War II.
They say there are three sides to every story — yours, mine, and the truth — but I’m not sure that any perspective shown in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s elegant fragmented examination of school bullying is entirely accurate.
Ava DuVernay takes on A Whole Lot in attempting to transmute Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s provocative nonfiction book Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents to the screen.
Two master storytellers — John Le Carre and Errol Morris — sat down for an “interrogation” before the great spy novelist’s death in 2020. Their lively conversation hovers on the quivering membrane between an excavation of personal history and the construction of a myth.
Who but Emily Blunt could make us even consider siding with a narcotics-pushing drug rep whose rise to wealth was predicated on convincing doctors of questionable qualifications and ethics to prescribe their patients an under-the-tongue spray for breakthrough cancer pain?
Sure, this story of a disgraced soccer coach exiled to help turn around the hapless American Samoa national soccer team has some cute moments and chuckles, but it falls flat over and over again.
A complete misfire, watching this dopey take on Chinatown felt like spending a couple hours inside Chris Pine’s generously-financed head trauma.
Akwafina and Sandra Oh are a hilarious pair of complete opposite sisters who reunite after their mother escapes from her retirement home and leaves them with a big pile of debt.
It’s finally happened. Justin Timberlake has aged into playing roles like a middle-aged mama’s boy real estate agent
This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. More information about the strikes can be found on the SAG-AFTRA Strike hubs. Donations to support striking workers can be made at the Entertainment Community Fund.