When there’s no money left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire. In this movie life’s greatest shame after all is being unable to...

Ron Howard really leans into the elegy part of this adaptation of a NYTimes besteller for Netflix. The technically-proficient biopic rues...

One can fantasize about how much Sofia Coppola was paid for this quick job or why she agreed to it. On the Rocks is a paint-by-number...

In Six in Paris, an omnibus film from 1965, a slew of Nouvelle Vague/adjacent greats pack a wallop in just quarter hour segments. Each...

A blushing bride, burdened by domesticity sublimates her issues by turning them inward. Literally. She develops pica, gulping down...

My first instinct is to say that Jesus Rolls was an insufferable waste and shunt it down the bottom of the "best however many films" list...

There’s no escaping men, but there is always the cinema. This could be one way of summarizing the latest from the prolific Korean...

An homage to La Chinoise by way of Black socialists in West Philly. Books, records, and films are not merely window dressing, but charged...

Cinema as we know it doesn’t really exist right now, but this turgid summer has brought with it a few new releases. None as timely,...

What makes for an amusing satire on paper does not always translate to the screen.  Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen) falls into a vat of...

What makes a movie exploitative? Not as a genre (exploitation films), but as an invective hurled by critics who deem the film or its...

New York City. 1981. It is this most dangerous year in the city's history that earns the film its title in J.C. Chandor's urban tale of...

The fifth feature from talented young filmmaker and Cannes favorite Xavier Dolan is his best-executed work, streamlined of the visual...

Seong-Jun (Yu Jun-Sang), a former filmmaker, now reclusive to the countryside, treks through Seoul to meet an old friend, or so he claims...

Is Jesse Eisenberg not the perfect Dostoyevskian hero? The actor is best known to portray nerdy types, all the more awkward due to an...