Peg Aloi
Fans of this ongoing horror narrative will find much to appreciate in its latest chapter.
Vince Gilligan’s new series is ambitious, visionary, and artfully realistic, teeming with topical and timely references that make us wonder if, indeed, this shit might actually be happening in the real world, too.
Knowing that artist Peter Hujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives the film a sad, mortal urgency.
Director Joachim Trier is a masterful arbiter of storytelling conceits and tones: by turns subtle, ironic, melodramatic, cold, and, often, heartbreaking.
A quartet of films whose topics range from modern love and protecting animals to family dysfunction and a who-done-it with a vintage doll detective on the case.
A trio of superb films that feature fierce women.
An engagingly put together cinematic celebration of the cat.
The film offers some intriguing twists and turns, and the excellent cast propels the narrative forward admirably. But the screenplay tries a bit too hard to dramatize character transformations in a short period of time.
Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen was a cultural tipping point; he was the bold standard bearer for what has become a spirited new form of historical cinema.
Film Commentary: Zombie Apocalypse, Re-Imagined — The Legacy of “28 Days Later”
Where is the grandiose zombie apocalypse that illuminates the grotesque reality of the death-denying yet death-obsessed beings we’ve become? Ralph Fiennes knows.
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