2002’s 28 Days Later is a magically inventive and captivating horror movie that takes elements from zombie film tropes and morphs it into something profound. In its immediate sequel, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, the thesis was clear:Read Full Review

Stories of the troubled shooting of Ballerina – a female-led spin-off of the John Wick franchise – weren’t quelled when a month before the release the “full title” was revealed to be From the World of John Wick: Ballerina.Read Full Review

When people say they want to make a James L. Brooks comedy, they usually know that they’re going to attempt something difficult but they never seem to gather that it’s actually impossible. One must considerRead Full Review

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

It’s certainly easy to look at aspects of Bong Joon-ho’s filmography and conclude that he’s nihilistic. He’s clear-eyed about the evils of our world and the uphill battles that humanity have in defeating it. AndRead Full Review

If boxing is cinema’s most beloved sport, then director Emily Sheskin utilizes that fact to her advantage in Jesszilla, a new documentary about childhood boxer Jesselyn Silva. Sheskin has been collecting footage with Silva since atRead Full Review

Taking place “somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg”, Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language is a piercing, absurdist comedy in the tradition of Roy Andersson by way of Abbas Kiarostami. The Winnipeg of the film is filled with beige, Twentieth Century architecture,Read Full Review

As the ending credits roll on the perfectly mediocre You’re Cordially Invited, various members of the cast, stretching from the main stars to the one-scene cameos, are filmed singing a song in the kind of HollywoodRead Full Review

Companion is the best of what a B movie should be: consistently entertaining, free of pretension, and possessing good performances from talented actors you anticipate will get more acclaim in “better” movies. Of course, whenRead Full Review

Steven Soderbergh’s defiance of his own stature is a tension that makes all his films fascinating. His elder statesman status within the 90’s Video Generation means that he had the jump on the likes of PaulRead Full Review

It’s been twelve years since we’ve seen a Walter Salles film. The Brazilian director’s last film, On The Road, was a surprisingly muted adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel. It’s logical that his return is I’m StillRead Full Review

Between this movie, Megalopolis, and Sofia Coppola schilling mass-produced stationery as a fashion accessory, 2024 wasn’t exactly a banner year for the Coppola brand, in terms of quality. The Last Showgirl did all the work it neededRead Full Review

The rise of Robert Eggers is not merely the ascent of another popular horror filmmaker. There are plenty of those to go around these days. Along with his spiritual filmmaking sibling, Ari Aster, Eggers makesRead Full Review

This isn’t the first film about Bob Dylan but it’s probably the biggest. In documentaries like DA Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back or Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home, we get the illusion of candor, glimpses of real life, imagesRead Full Review

Twenty-five years ago, Nicole Kidman starred in a sex drama where she played a married woman requesting a more fulfilling sexual experience from her husband. The movie had the distinction of taking place during ChristmasRead Full Review

In The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet is attempting to craft an epic on par with the Great American Novels of the Twentieth Century. Like many epic tales, we are given a hero, and his life isRead Full Review

Last year, Pedro Almodóvar released his first ever film in English: a short film called Strange Way of Life, a queer-tinged western starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as cowboys in the old West. Because it’sRead Full Review

The orneriest members of the online film elite have made their feelings known about Wicked‘s lighting – or particularly, it’s backlighting. Never before have I seen a group of irony-pilled aesthetes get so hung up on theRead Full Review

Pablo Larraín makes remarkably interesting and unambiguously political films in his native Chile, but he’s most famous in the US for his now three biopics on Twentieth Century Women in Trouble. 2016’s Jackie explored Jacqueline KennedyRead Full Review

Not since Terrence Mallick’s The Tree of Life have I come across a film like Nickel Boys – a movie that is so unlike anything that I’ve ever seen before while taking the care and patience toRead Full Review

After the first election of Donald Trump, I found myself shocked by the sudden rise of fascists and neo-Nazis freely speaking their tirades of racism and hate without fear of derision. That was eight yearsRead Full Review

If the last three films of Paul Schrader have been defined by his Travis Bickle-like protagonists – scribbling furiously in their notebooks while voiceover expresses their philosophical and existential crises – then Oh, Canada is him going MishimaRead Full Review

Writer-director Mike Leigh hasn’t been too shy to talk about about how difficult it has become for him to make movies these days. He mentions it in nearly any interview he gives, even during pressRead Full Review

Perhaps more than any other director working right now, Luca Guadagnino understands that fucking is one of humanity’s greatest motivators, dictating nearly every aspect of our lives, it’s consequences rippling forever through our relationships, ourRead Full Review

What are the foundations of an oppressive regime? Paranoia, complicity, fear. Whether you’re on the side of the oppressor or the oppressed, those three factors are always present. Mohammad Rasoulof’s latest film, The Seed of theRead Full Review

There are legacy sequels and then there is Gladiator II. Ridley Scott returns as director, as do several clips from the Best Picture winner of 2000, in case you were wondering about the connection. Scott’s ownRead Full Review

In the latest stage of Denzel Washington’s career, canonizing the work of August Wilson appears to be of great importance. Washington himself directed and starred in the 2016 adaptation of Fences, while drafting stage director GeorgeRead Full Review

They just gave Richard Curtis an honorary Oscar last weekend, and if he had directed Blitz, it would be the best movie that he ever made. But he didn’t make Blitz, Steve McQueen did, and there liesRead Full Review

Mati Diop’s Dahomey is a visually arresting and intellectually heady documentary about twenty-six pieces of art being returned to Africa. The items were seized by French soldiers in 1892 from what was then the nation ofRead Full Review

In the urban streets of Mumbai, people cram together in search of the life that modernity promises. But what if that promise is false? All We Imagine As Light is a tenderly told story about twoRead Full Review

The good thing about French artists across all mediums is that they attack projects with an intellectual rigor that instills in them a confidence that they can tackle any subject matter. This is also oneRead Full Review