Peg Aloi
Director Jane Schoenbrun’s seductive, funny, and unsettling meditation on horror, desire, and cinema turns summer-camp carnage into a tale of identity, intimacy, and renewal.
Eli Roth’s brightly packaged slasher has an intriguing premise, sweet candy-colored visuals, and impressive effects, but its lazy derivations, forced humor, and AI-generated cartoons leave a sour aftertaste.
Handsome yet not easily typecast, Sam Neill built a quietly remarkable career playing heroes, villains, lovers, weirdos, and everything in between.
David Frankel’s wildly popular fashion fairy tale returns with a biting media critique and Meryl Streep’s cucumber-cool Miranda facing down tech billionaires.
This is pure cinema, unpretentious, rough-hewn, mystical, conjured from the earth, offered up at the forest altar of whatever flesh-and-blood gods are still listening.
Clea Simon’s latest is an easy-going entertainment that will be a fine introduction to those who are only now discovering the author’s uniquely enchanting brand of feline genre fiction.
We’ve lost some fantastic actors in the last few months. Tom Noonan was one of them. He was singularly talented, and unique, and leaves behind a remarkable legacy of good work. Seek it out.
Despite an excellent cast, impressive production values, and the thrilling music at its heart, “The Choral” often feels as if it is trying to be several films at once.
Despite an occasional narrative misstep, “H is for Hawk” soars with enormous power and beauty when it revels in the mysterious, graceful ways of nature.
How often do we see movies that successfully delve into what it means to become a mature adult after a traumatic childhood?
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