There’s nothing more embarrassing than bad comedy. A horror which fails to scare its audience may at least result in a mocking enjoyment of its attempts at gravitas (see “Wish Upon.”) The same goes...

“Wicked”(2024)  does nothing less than defy expectations and redefine assumptions of what a movie musical can be. Based on the Broadway hit, “Wicked” itself is based on the novel “Wicked:...

“The Piano Lesson” is a theatrical play masquerading as a movie. Based on the 1987 play by August Wilson, the film adaptation is proof that sticking to a story’s theatrical roots can pay off on screen...

Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” is a strikingly empathetic portrait of people on the fringes of society while simultaneously being in the midst of it. Re-teaming with Leigh twenty-eight years after their...

Wow! Not sure what else to say. This was my first experience with Gints Zilbalodis’ work – Latvian filmmaker, animator and director of “Flow” – and I can confidently say that I am a fan. “Flow”...

Flashes of the past and present are overlaid on top of one another throughout “Grand Tour.” A dance of motorcycles swirling around a roundabout is played simultaneously with footage of the Chinese...

A post-apocalyptic anti-musical overwhelmed with guilt and grief, Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End” follows a billionaire family and the cracks that start to form when a young woman shows up in the...

The rarity of something like Jules Rosskam’s “Desire Lines” is reason enough for its existence. Woven in-between talking heads interviews with gay trans men speaking frankly about their experiences...

The first narrative film from Indian director Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light” is a spellbinding story of two nurses who share an apartment in Mumbai and a sisterhood forged amidst their respective...

When did we lose the art of subtlety? Somewhere buried in the hour-and-a-half run time of “Nightbitch” is a truly fascinating story about motherhood, but the film’s reality is a sad case of no show...

Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man” is about its own creation. Around halfway through the film, the character of Ingrid Vold (Renate Reinsve) discusses the ethics of casting her theater production...

The end of the 2010s were the apex of superhero popularity: everything from “Avengers: Endgame” to “Shazam!” were at the forefront of pop culture’s interaction with cinema. The first “Joker”...