Earlier this year we called, without hesitation or compunction, Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back one of 2021's most-anticipated films. If the first traile...
The fall movie season is so packed that it's easy to forget we have a new Abel Ferrara movie coming—a good one, to hear word. After winning Locarno's Best Dire...
Though Mank did not do us a world of goodwill, David Fincher is David Fincher, and David Fincher in airport-thriller mode is more fun than most things. Hence o...
It's a story deserving its own film: Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Reza Aslani's Chess of the Wind had three public screenings, likely recognized as the remarkabl...
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is certainly one of the greatest festival winners in recent years—a designation I don't assign just (just) because of the name. ...
October's here and it's time to get spooked. After last year's superb "'70s Horror" lineup, the Criterion Channel commemorates October with a couple series: "U...
At long last, Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta is touching down stateside this weekend with a North American premiere at the 59th New York Film Festival. Ahead of th...
A Kristen Stewart-led Princess Diana don't-call-it-a-biopic-because-it's-only-set-in-a-small-period-of-time-we-obviously-mustn't-take-as-an-encapsulation-of-he...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's filmography is a dream—deep, dense, an alternation of consistent through lines and true surprises. Basically just decades of work from one o...
If Isle of Dogs suggested Wes Anderson needs a break from animation, here's something to argue the medium's best used short-term. To hype his long-delayed The ...
After graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in music theory, Leonard Pearce turned his passions to film and writing. He lives in upstate NY with his wife Laura and cat Tardi.
