Frederick Wiseman’s newest documentary runs for exactly four hours, probably about the amount of time you’d spend enjoying a dinner service at Le Bois sans Feuilles, the three Michelin starred restaurant run by the Troisgros family at their inn in the French countryside in Ouches. While the price of admission for the film is substantially less than even the a la carte menu at the celebrated restaurant, the intricately observed documentary is nevertheless a sumptuous immersion in the highest levels of new French cuisine.

The Boy and the Heron (2023 | Japan | 124 minutes | Hayao Miyazaki) In what might be his final film, master Japanese …

The names Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau are nowhere to be found in the press materials for Todd Haynes’s new film May December, but anyone alive in 1997 will instantly recognize their story as the launching point for Samy Burch’s screenplay and Julianne Moore’s uncanny performance.

David Fincher’s latest film is about an incredibly meticulous craftsman doing dirty work for hire for incredibly wealthy clients in exactly the way he knows how to do them best.

New theorem: if a Marvel movie it has a Spider-Man or a super pet, it’s going to be good. The Marvels has orange tabby cat Goose; thus the Marvels is pretty good. Q.E.D.

Using Priscilla Presley’s autobiography Elvis and Me (co-written with Sandra Harmon) as structure, Sofia Coppola presents her life as a series of baubles strung across a gossamer thread that spans the vast lonely gulf between a soda counter on an Army base in Germany in 1959 and a Las Vegas hotel in 1973.