Film
“Hoppers”‘ climax is a valuable reminder that none of us — from mammal to ant — are safe from the fury of a Mother Nature we have badly wronged.
The film’s intellectual friskiness is everywhere, and at times it takes centerstage at the expense of the story.
Reviews of “Josephine,: the film that won Sundance’s top award for 2026 and of “Aanookibijigan” and “The Gallerist”.
“Sirāt” is a heart-stopping, surreal reflection of our contemporary moment.
“Deepfaking Sam Altman” is an entertaining, off-beat deep dive into the hands-on tech needed to generate deepfakes. It also sounds the alarm about the growing imitative power of AI.
Director Baz Luhrmann’s exhilarating documentary-concert film gives us Elvis in his prime.
Admiring looks at a wealth of illuminating documentaries in this year’s gathering.
The ratio between fantasy and real life felt off in this uneven film version of Kander and Ebb’s 1990 musical.
Cinema lovers with a taste for the exotic and a tolerance for narrative loose ends should take advantage of the re-emergence, via 4k digital makeover, of “Queen Kelly”.
Both films are intermittently entertaining and display a high level of craft. They’re also blithely mediocre: mainly flash and filigree, vacuous at their center.
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