In all the harping over Wes Anderson that one can partake in (the archness of tone, the privilege of his characters, the artificiality of his settings), one thing that can never really be denied isRead Full Review

Alt-comedian Tim Robinson is not an overnight success. He cut his teeth on comedy mainstays like Saturday Night Live and Late Night With Seth Meyers. Guest spots Comedy Bang! Bang! and Documentary Now! preceded his true mainstream breakthrough: the NetflixRead Full Review

There’s a weight that loiters over The Final Reckoning, as it struggles mightily with the responsibility of finishing off a ridiculously successful film franchise that has lasted for three decades. Make no mistake, the Mission: Impossible filmsRead Full Review

Caught By The Tides is definitive Late Style, with beloved Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke plowing through his career to produce something deeply romantic and contextual. The movie stars Zhoa Tao, Jia’s wife and creative muse,Read Full Review

Now in his eighties, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has gotten understandably reflective, his films having a self-referential quality that wasn’t quite apparent in Videodrome or Scanners. In The Shrouds, he takes his leading man, veteran French actor VincentRead Full Review

After I watched Fruitvale Station in 2013, I knew that first-time director Ryan Coogler was a genuine talent, but I’ll confess that I couldn’t predict at that time the degree to which he was the heir apparentRead Full Review

The Ballad of Wallis Island is a feature-length adaptation of a short film from 2007. For better and worse, it shows. Both films feature the actors Tim Key and Tom Basden, and both were directedRead Full Review

The Friend is a film that knows all about the tentpole story beats of the dog movie. It understands – almost too well – the narrative premise of dog-as-metaphor. The film is based on aRead Full Review

In the opening moments of Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, we meet our heroine, Shula (played brilliantly by Susan Chardy), driving down a dark road, dressed like Missy Elliott in the music video forRead Full Review

Black Bag is the second collaboration between director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp in 2025, and it’s not even the end of March. The first one was Presence, a conceptual horror movie that can impressRead Full Review