‘The Alto Knights’ Review: But They’re Gangsters, Identical Gangsters All the Way [C]
Gangster films have been a staple of cinema since the earliest days and over the last fifty years, few actors are as synonymous with the genre... Read More
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‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Review: Showtime’s Buzziest Series Still Stings [B]
It has been two years since the shocking season finale that left one of our favorite Yellowjackets dead and another being hauled away on a... Read More
‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: James Griffiths’s Oddball Charmer Has a Song in its Heart [A] – Sundance Film Festival
There is something satisfying and sweet about watching a diva navigate uncomfortable circumstances that slowly melt their icy heart. This is the story of The... Read More
‘The Wedding Banquet’ Review: Andrew Ahn Finds Fun and Heart in Frothy Reboot of the Gay Classic [B+] – Sundance Film Festival
It’s hard to remake a film that means so much to people, but Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet is a charming and poignant update to... Read More
‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review: Jennifer Lopez Spins a Tantalizing Web but Tonatiuh is a Star in the Making [B] – Sundance Film Festival
Amid the recent surge of big screen musicals, Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) returns to the director’s chair with a new adaptation of Kiss of the Spider... Read More
‘Rebuilding’ Review: Josh O’Connor Quietly Stuns in Max Walker-Silverman’s Solemn but Hopeful Second Feature [A] – Sundance Film Festival
“It’s funny, the things you pack and the things you leave,” says Dusty (Josh O’Connor) to a friend in the aftermath of the wildfire that... Read More
‘Omaha’ Review: John Margaro Will Break Your Heart as a Widowed Dad in Nuanced Family Drama [A] – Sundance Film Festival
One of the most quietly devastating films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is also one of the festival’s sleeper hits. Director Cole Webley’s feature... Read More
‘Wolf Man’ Review: Christopher Abbott Takes a Lycan for Flesh in Leigh Whannell’s Thrilling and Thoughtful Monster Movie [A-]
There have been many versions of werewolf movies over the past century, but it has been a long time since we have been gifted with... Read More
Interview: ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham on Bringing Back Two of Animation’s Most Beloved Characters [VIDEO]
More than 30 years ago, Nick Park introduced the world to an affable and eccentric inventor named Wallace and his loyal, brilliant canine companion Gromit... Read More
‘Wicked’ Review: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Will Sweep You Off Your Feet in Jon M. Chu’s High-Flying Musical Feast
The Wicked Witch of the West was an icon of cinematic villainy for decades before Gregory Maguire’s 1995 revisionary novel became one of Broadway’s most... Read More
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
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