Every time there is a new Juliette Binoche performance it's a hearty reminder that she is probably our greatest living actor. The new thriller Who You Think I ...
Whatever new could be said about Paul Schrader as an artist—curving around the extra-textual value in Kickstarter campaigns, Facebook posts, and tragic losses ...
In a film of carefully appointed details, let’s isolate one. Phil Burbank (a fierce Benedict Cumberbatch) is, among many things, a man of reputation. The Monta...
In his roles as either a Silicon Valley super-villain (Venom) or Hannah Horvath’s baby daddy (Girls), Riz Ahmed has had to do the same as countless other Holly...
T. S. Eliot gave it a cryptic name in The Waste Land: "The Burial of the Dead." Pedro Almodóvar has instructed his glamorous cast in Parallel Mothers to carry ...
Grafting Cronenbergian body horror onto the 2008 financial crisis, Filip Jan Rymsza’s horror-tinged Mosquito State takes its title very literally, beginning wi...
Despite its earned cult-classic status, Bernard Rose's Candyman isn't without fault. His transposing Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden" from a British ...
Perk the ears at any film festival and you might hear talk that Franz Rogowski is the best European actor of his generation. The captivating German offers furt...
Right off the bat, let's acknowledge something: making a movie about the COVID-19 pandemic during the COVID-19 pandemic feels like too much too fast. That said...
Baby (Zita Bai) is a seventeen-year-old Chinese immigrant surviving on the fringes of her community. She's a voyeur—always with camera on to capture the dialog...