Film
The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?
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I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.
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The Field is a fairly original, if slightly problematic, folk horror-tinged story.
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What makes The Traitor ultimately worth watching is its epic sweep, the deft way director Marco Bellocchio and his below-the-credits team carve out the dramatic highlights of Italy’s twenty year war with the Cosa Nostra.
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While The Assistant’s scenario alludes to Harvey Weinstein, the problem is systemic in the entertainment business and probably many other workplaces.
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Among this group of strong animated shorts I found the French selection, Mémorable, to be the most powerful and artful.
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All in all, Color Out of Space is only OK.
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A critical look at this year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts.
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Who can explain why two of the five nominees are set in Tunisia? Or why several of them seem like student films?
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To move from a bucolic beginning to a surreal, chaotic climax, and then to an elegiac epilogue — that, in my book, is the sign of a well-crafted horror film.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025