Film
David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.
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X takes the right lessons from Chainsaw: it is both an adoring homage and a much needed rejuvenation of the slasher genre.
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Aside from the multiple awards Dune won for technological brilliance, the 94th Academy Awards was a very different sort of “Hooray for Hollywood.”
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Mariama Diallo’s film is a subtle, sure-handed thriller that nevertheless delivers a stunningly deft commentary on the enduring horror of racism and sexism.
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Sitting through Deep Water is like being trapped at an endless, sodden string of dinner parties that don’t go very well.
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A subtle, elegant noir mobster film that maintains an aura of tranquility — until the violence begins.
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Recommending The Spine of the Night depends on how much you’d like to see things like head decapitations, eye-gouging, and people being disemboweled in your high-fantasy animated features, in which case Spine is everything you could hope for and a whole lot more.
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Never mind the faint of heart, Mimi Cave’s first feature isn’t for people with weak stomachs.
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Korean writer-director Kogonada’s meditation on life and how it’s lived is dreamy, haunting, profound, and deeply moving.
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Arts Commentary: The Oscars 2022 — No Longer So White, But Still Not So Hot
It was soon clear what Oscar was after: two separate younger demographics — one with plebeian cinematic tastes, the other with hip politics.
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