The films of Andrew Bujalski have always had a disjointed feeling for me; a certain mellowness which seems too contrasted with the chaos of his characters’ feelings. I do not think this is the caseRead Full Review

In making a film about conceptual art, it would only make sense for the film itself to be conceptual as well. And so, writer-director Josephine Decker delves shockingly deep into the fractured mind of Madeline (aRead Full Review

I’ve never read Meg Wolitzer’s novel, The Wife, but it’s adaptation is one of those films that seems like it’s a much better book. The film stars Glenn Close as Jane Castleman, the supportive wife ofRead Full Review

The kind of romantic comedy that Crazy Rich Asians is attempting to be is something that Hollywood hardly makes anymore. It’s the kind of romance that depends on the audience’s familiarity with the story, its uniquenessRead Full Review

If Spike Lee’s form of provocation seems on-the-nose, it’s only because the world has caught up to his particular vision of our culture. Lee has often been controversial, has been accused of paranoia, charged asRead Full Review

Watching Christopher Robin, Disney’s new take on the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise, I was reminded of Steven Spielberg’s Hook, another film based on a children’s series which asked the audience to imagine a beloved child character as an adult.Read Full Review

To the degree that every Tom Cruise movie is actually, in its core, about Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is part redemption tale and part swan song, part relinquishment of the throne and part declarationRead Full Review

The creeping, sometimes translucent tentacles of gentrification make their way through the streets of Oakland, California in the new film Blindspotting, which stars original Hamilton cast member Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal – the two actors also wrote the script.Read Full Review

All comparisons to Die Hard aside – and there are many – Skyscraper is an exceptional Hollywood action movie. It stars Dwayne Johnson, or The Rock, who is the America’s only true action movie superstar, an actorRead Full Review

Not many people born in the last thirty years would claim that middle school is anything other than unmitigated torture, a formless purgatory between the mania of elementary and the rage of high school. Eighth Grade,Read Full Review

Three Identical Strangers promises an astonishing true story, and delivers. Three triplets with remarkably similar physical and personality traits manage to find each other in New York when they’re nineteen years old after being separatedRead Full Review

There’s a level of absurdity throughout Sorry To Bother You that is unlike anything I’ve seen in quite a while. It’s themes of racism, classism, labor unrest and art conception are all made to serve the comedyRead Full Review

I guess there was no other place for this movie to go. When Hollywood chose to prop up the Jurassic Park franchise in 2015 with Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World, they chose to make self-referential fun and becameRead Full Review

The films of Debra Granik have a bruised, inky nature to them. Her characters are hurt, occasionally floundering, always paranoid about where the next strike will come from. Her first two features dealt with addiction. DownRead Full Review

If you (like me) are a big movie fan and a huge basketball fan, then you (like me) are probably frustrated by the dearth of good basketball movies. And then maybe you give a movieRead Full Review

I guess that Hereditary is good. Across the board, it seems to be executing its plan as fully and exceptionally as it wants to. It’s lead by a performance by Toni Colette that might be amongstRead Full Review

So, after fourteen years, Incredibles 2 just starts right where it left off. After the heroics against the first film’s villain, Syndrome, they’re met with an impeccably timed attack from The Underminer, a mole-like, hard-hat wearingRead Full Review

I’ve never watched an episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood during its 38-year run on public television. His image and cadence was, in fact, always played for parody when I was younger, nearly always mocked for theRead Full Review

If you, like me, are someone who thinks that the cast of Ocean’s 8 is enough to make a decent movie, then you might be pleased to learn that Ocean’s 8 is more than happy to prove thatRead Full Review

If Solo: A Star Wars Story could rid itself of that subtitle and all of the pop culture baggage that comes along with it, it would be one of the year’s best action films. I’m not totallyRead Full Review

The blending of fact and fiction in The Rider is more interesting in theory than in practice. The film documents the choking death of traditionalist Americana, the fading legacy of the mythological cowboy. The film starsRead Full Review

Few artists are more explicitly tormented than Paul Schrader. The man most famous for writing Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece, Taxi Driver, followed that with an up-and-down, decades-long career examining the spiritually lost and morally bankrupt. Schrader’s moviesRead Full Review

The career of Jason Reitman is an overall successful one, with a filmmaking style that is more competent than unique, and a point of view that only occasionally hits the mark. No one brings theRead Full Review

There is so much going on in the latest Avengers movie. There’s hardly a character that doesn’t show up to stake his claim of importance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or MCU for those who are busy).Read Full Review

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio seems obsessed with the various female experiences within a patriarchal society. His 2013 masterpiece, Gloria, was about a middle-aged woman who has the spirit of a twenty-something and is unafraid to showRead Full Review

On the shores of Colonial South America, the men of the Spanish Empire sit within the torturous humidity, surrounded by bitter indigenous groups and mysterious diseases, waiting for news from home. One of those men, DonRead Full Review

Lean on Pete is English film director Andrew Haigh’s dive into the iconography of Americana. It’s story (the script is by Haigh, and based on a novel by Willy Vlautin) allows him to set upRead Full Review

Some people never get a real chance. Some are chewed up by life from the start, a tragic victim of circumstance and chance. Joaquin Phoenix’s Joe in You Were Never Really Here is one of thoseRead Full Review

Gemini could be a lot funnier. It could be a lot more suspenseful. It could be creepier, sexier, more verbose. It instead settles for a bland storyline framed by neo-noir archetypes. Writer-director Aaron Katz isRead Full Review

Since his fourth feature, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, filmmaker Wes Anderson has shown an affinity with traversing the world and force-feeding his sharp, deadpan view of humanity into these non-American settings. The films oftenRead Full Review

Armando Ianucci’s brand of political satire is so biting, so eviscerating, scattershot, and so specific in its intricate detailing of byzantine bureaucracy. How does something so obtuse and blunt in its delivery also manage to be soRead Full Review

Sally Potter’s The Party is a political film. Or, at least, it’s a film about how everything in our lives has become political or, if you prefer, how politics is in everything we consume and loveRead Full Review

It’s an interesting trend I’m seeing in the science fiction movies of the last few years: they seem to be pondering the end (or at least the complete irrelevance) of the human race as aRead Full Review

I’ve long come undone in my quest to keep abreast of the Marvel cinematic universe. I’ve seen the Iron Mans and two Avengers films, and out of those five, we got two terrific movies and three duds.Read Full Review

I’m not usually the biggest Alex Ross Perry fan. His films feverishly examine the New York phenomenon of Mild White Affluence, where people work office jobs, drink lots of canned beer and seemingly never haveRead Full Review

The crux of The Insult is a philosophical disagreement empowered by entrenched biases. Ziad Doueiri’s film tackles the sociological landmine of the Middle East, specifically a town in Lebanon, where Lebanese Christians share a tense relationshipRead Full Review

Loving Vincent announces itself as the first fully-painted feature film, no doubt an exhaustively labor-intensive enterprise which included shooting the entire script with actors in front of a green screen, editing it together, and thenRead Full Review

Agnès Varda is one of the last living vestiges of the French New Wave that transformed cinema in the 1960’s. Varda’s place within the movement has mostly taken a backseat to the more front-and-center legends likeRead Full Review

Darkest Hour is a holdover from a previous time. A very traditional biopic that praises all of the things that the movies couldn’t stop praising in, say 1997. As a Churchill biopic, it is farRead Full Review