Kahlil Joseph’s multi-sensory film takes inspiration for W.E.B. Du Bois’s dream — unfinished at the time of his death, but realized decades later by a group of scholars led by Henry Louis Gates — of creating an Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience. Acting more as chief curator or executive producer than a typical film director, he assembles a richly textured visual album for the screen that includes a long list of talented filmmakers, collaborators, and guest stars.
Crime 101 strikes gold with Chris Hemsworth masterminding freeway robberies
Bart Layton’s newest crime thriller, Crime 101, has nearly everything going for it. A stacked cast led by Chris Hemsworth, beautiful cinematography from Erik Wilson, an intriguing story adapted from Don Winslow’s novella,, and so much more.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die: rescuing the world from AI dystopia, one diner visit at a time
Gore Verbinski’s latest movie turns out to be an imaginative, funny, and surprisingly affecting sci-fi adventure.
Wuthering Heights in bad decline
Wuthering Heights is both the title of Emily Brontë’s only novel, published in 1847, and a new film by Emerald Fennell, out this week, which I will refer to as “Wuthering Heights.” One bears some resemblance to the other, but not too much, hence the quotation marks. It is like when there was once a Seattle rock band called “The Rolling Stones.”
Even Doubting Dennis thinks the 5th Avenue Theatre’s production of SPAMALOT is hysterical
Through this weekend, the Monty Python stage musical SPAMALOT can be seen at the 5th Avenue Theatre. It was uproariously funny. It is probably the funniest play I have ever seen, which includes The Book of Mormon and The Producers (my favorite musical that is not Chicago).
Brat Summer is Dead and The Moment is here to bury it.
In which the only rational response to sudden intense fame is to fictionalize a version even more absurd to find some glancing approximation of the honest truth.
Sundance 2026: Award Winners and Online Screenings Announced
Sundance 2026 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and — beginning on January 29 — online
Sundance 2026 – Leviticus
The metaphors run hot and heavy in this down under horror story about the trauma of gay awakenings. Still, small abandoned conservative towns, spooky religion, and the overwhelming potency of teenage lust remain creepily effective tools when deployed this stylishly.
Sundance 2026 – Hanging By A Wire
It takes a village of personalities to rescue eight passengers dangling nearly thousand perilous feet above a remote Pakistani valley in a cable car, and one action-styled documentary to make you question whether to ever set foot in a gondola again.
Sundance 2026 – The History of Concrete
John Wilson’s first feature-length documentary could have been titled How To Make A Movie With John Wilson.