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The opening shot of this rich, immersive, satisfying film is awash in darkness and confusion. It’s hard to see what is happening in the black chaos of voices, and knowing that this film is about a Holocaust survivor you instinctively think of the worst. But then the camera pushes...
In a year where ALL of the top ten box office films (and if you go further down the list, 18 of the top 20) were sequels, remakes, or reimaginings of existing familiar intellectual property, it’s easy to see why Hollywood continues the discouraging and disheartening practice of continuing...
In 1838 Germany, a newlywed couple is planning their hopeful future despite the distressing problem that the lovely young bride is haunted by visions. Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) remembers horrid yet pleasurable dreams of being wedded to some sort of demon, surrounded by a wedding party of the dead. Not...
Nicole Kidman plays Romy, a modern boss bitch–a strong, power-player CEO at her own company. She has a beautiful husband (beautiful Antonio Banderas), a couple of teens, and the token fancy apartment in the city/house in the country. She’s a woman on top, even in bed when having sex...
I always joke that “unlikely animal friends” is my favorite genre of mood-enhancing, brain-melting YouTube videos. Show me a sweet little video of ducklings nestling up to a mama cat, or a goat and a dog frolicking on a farm, or a donkey leading a blind horse, and you...
With his third film about an iconic woman of the 20th century (Maria follows his films Jackie, about Jacqueline Kennedy, and Spencer, about Princess Diana), Chilean director Pablo Larraín once again creates a singular role that any modern actress would love to sink her teeth into. This time, Angelina...
Queer is a film soaked in sweat. Sweat from lust, sweat from sex, sweat from drug withdrawal. And of course sweat from heat, as the characters go from sweltering Mexico City to the jungles of Ecuador. Sweat from trying to maintain a grip, but knowing you’re slowly losing control....
Since so many modern men apparently think about the Roman Empire “every day,” it seems only appropriate for director Ridley Scott to revisit the world of his massively-successful, Oscar-winning epic Gladiator (2000). Even if its lore was very loosely based on reality, those uber-masculine, ruthless times seem ripe as...
Everyone, I’m sure, has known a guy like Benji—he was your old college roommate, or the clown at work, or a kid from childhood that you grew apart from over the years. Benji is a guy that feels all the emotions. He’s funny, vivacious, charming, and entertainingly erratic. He...
If Pretty Woman was a weirdly glossy whorish spin on Cinderella for the 1990s, Anora updates that spin for the 2020s by stripping away (so to speak) gauzy artifice for a bit of gritty realism (and a wild epilogue). Our heroine (Mikey Madison) is also a sex worker, but...
Richard Harris’s 2016 page-turner novel is now a cinematic papal thriller that is more timely and will probably be more polarizing than I’m sure he could have imagined. The film wastes no time with the opening shot as Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes, the soul and steady conscience of the...
Now, I’m an easy mark when it comes to emotional manipulation. I’ll cry at a sweet commercial. I’ll cry at unearned sad scenes in movies that I actively hate. Shoot, I even got misty-eyed at the opening credits of Top Gun: Maverick when I recognized Harold Faltermeyer’s score. So...
