‘Sound of Falling’ Review: What It Feels Like For a Girl [A-] Cannes
Early in Mascha Schilinski’s sophomore feature, Sound of Falling, Alma (Hanna Heckt) and her sisters play a prank on one of the maids. They know... Read More
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‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Brooding, Minimalistic Procedural Exposes Soviet Corruption [B+] Cannes
The grim iron gates of a Soviet prison open up as director Sergei Loznitsa begins his exploration of Soviet state repression, told through the lens... Read More
‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Review: Tom Cruise Takes Ethan Hunt to the Ends of the Earth and Back
“Our lives are the sum of our choices.” Though the words were first said to Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt in the penultimate quest, Mission: Impossible... Read More
‘A Little Prayer’ Review: Angus MacLachlan’s Gentle Family Drama Finds Beauty in the Seemingly Unremarkable [B] | Chicago Critics Film Festival
It’s been said that life doesn’t always make sense until examined in retrospect. The idea of waiting until a later point in one’s existence to... Read More
‘Thunderbolts*’ Review: A Fledgling Band of Avenger Misfits Disappear Into the MCU Void [C]
It wasn’t that long ago that the MCU was releasing critically acclaimed billion dollar event movies. A lot of digital ink has been devoted to... Read More
‘Sinners’ Review: Ryan Coogler’s Survive-the-Night Vampire Epic Carries the Pulpy Ambition of an Assured Filmmaker [B+]
It’s often remarked how the rise of the superhero industrial complex over the past 15 years has robbed audiences of more varied roles from some... Read More
‘The Amateur’ Review: Rami Malek Joins the Dead Wives Club in Stodgy, Data-Driven Thriller [C]
Hollywood has long been obsessed with stories about ordinary men finding inner strength to do extraordinary things. Most often that strength comes from grief and... Read More
‘The Encampments’ Review: A Powerful Picture of Resistance and the Repression of Fundamental Rights at Columbia University [A]
Some time from now — longer than it should be, but sooner than you think — people will look back at this period in history... Read More
‘A Minecraft Movie’ Review: The Best-Selling Video Game of All Time Becomes Generic Building Blocks in Uninspired Adaptation [C]
The troubled relationship between cinema and video games—namely, the former’s filmic interpretations of the latter—can often be distilled down to an attempt to translate an... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Dirty Love’ and ‘Crash’ (2005)
You know when someone smells the rotten milk and says “Oh god, this is horrible, smell this.” And then you smell it, knowing it will... Read More
Laura Dern, Carol Burnett, Cameron Crowe Added to TCM Classic Film Festival; Rare ‘Letty Lynton’ Restoration Set 
Academy Award-winning Filmmaker Steven Bognar Boards Yael Bridge’s ‘Who Moves America’ Doc as Executive Producer [EXCLUSIVE] 
‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Review: What’s Left to Do for the Teens of East Highland High but to Rue the Day [C+] 
Alana Haim and Mamoudou Athie on Supporting Each Other Through ‘The Drama’