It’s difficult, now, to illustrate the revolutionary impact of the first Toy Story film on movie audiences back in 1995. I was six when the film was first released. In other words, I was theRead Full Review

For a directing pair that hadn’t made a film in twelve years, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have certainly put their stamp on Hollywood. Their filmography, which includes the animated films Cloudy with a ChanceRead Full Review

Steven Spielberg’s fervent populism never shines brighter than in his alien movies. Beginning with 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg went against the common wisdom of most popular science fiction and dared toRead Full Review

How does one begin to talk about Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie? The title itself suggests an unwieldy temperament; a film unwilling to be complacent or predictable. I guess we can start withRead Full Review

Musician-turned-filmmaker Boots Riley is proving to be Hollywood’s most audacious, leftist iconoclast. Seems like a contradiction in terms, which is perhaps why his films take no chances on being misconstrued. His first film, 2018’s SorryRead Full Review

You watch a movie like Send Help – a very clever, well-written, star-led genre film – and you can get a good sense of the state of the industry today. The movie is directed byRead Full Review

There are three scenes of babies being born over the course of Hamnet, and not a single umbilical cord to be seen. Chloe Zhao is too detail-oriented a filmmaker for this to be an oversight.Read Full Review

Ira Sachs’s latest film, Peter Hujar’s Day, is pretty transparent about its intentions. The movie is more art experiment than narrative feature. The totality of what we watch is based on a portion of anRead Full Review

The films of director Kleber Mendonça Filho are fascinating crosses between the cerebral and the spectacle. There’s a bold, unapologetic political streak that runs through his screenplays, and his public appearances reinforce his anti-authoritarian views.Read Full Review