While Kate Winslet’s ‘Goodbye June’ may not reinvent the aesthetic and thematic wheel, its story is treated with great urgency and emotional care, allowing the audience to feel the characters’ emotions, rather than being told what to think at any given moment.
Read MoreNicholas Hytner’s ‘The Choral’ shines when it focuses on its protagonists ruminating on the casualties of war, but not so much when drawing character relationships inside the titular choir.
Read MorePaul Feig crafts his first theatrical production since 2019 with an adaptation of ‘The Housemaid’, but the end result leaves much to be desired, despite solid turns from Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar.
Read More‘Marty Supreme’, which marks Josh Safdie’s solo directorial debut is equal parts ambitious and assured, making for one of the best films of the year.
Read MoreKaouther Ben Hania’s docu-fiction hybrid ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ is a difficult but necessary document of the atrocities still occurring to this day in Gaza, and, most importantly, the individual human stories no one is currently talking about.
Read MoreWhile Brendan Fraser gives an impassioned performance in ‘Rental Family’, the movie itself is not as heartwarming as it sets out to be.
Read MoreWriter/Director Edgar Wright is back at it again, this time tackling a remake of ‘The Running Man’, based on the beloved Stephen King novel of the same name. What on paper seemed like a match made in heaven, unfortunately results in an action-packed letdown.
Read MoreWhile ‘Nuremberg’ boasts a strong cast and admirable intentions, the bizarre choices it makes along the way turn what could’ve been a thought-provoking drama into a hollow and trite object.
Read MoreJoachim Trier offers a profoundly affecting meditation on the healing – and life-affirming – power of art in ‘Sentimental Value’, anchored by a devastatingly brilliant Renate Reinsve, who gives this year’s most soulful performance.
Read MoreJennifer Lawrence gives the best performance of her career in Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Die My Love’. However, the fragmented structure of the movie may prove alienating for audiences, especially as it purposefully antagonizes at almost every turn.
Read MoreJoel Edgerton delivers his best performance to date in Clint Bentley’s ‘Train Dreams’, a complex and emotionally powerful elegy for a lost soul searching for meaning in a life that has left him and the contributions he made to society behind.
Read MoreSydney Sweeney and Ben Foster are spectacular in David Michôd’s ‘Christy’, but that’s about all this tediously generic sports-biopic has going for it.
Read MoreDirector Bradley Cooper has decided to scale things back for his third feature film ‘Is This Thing On?’, a tender and often very funny comedy that makes great use of its talented cast and emotionally accessible story.
Read More‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’ may be the worst biopic of the decade thus far. Inert in ways that few movies on “tortured artists” are, the movie is entirely disinterested on the singer’s struggles with depression and the making of his ultimate masterpiece.
Read MoreJafar Panahi crafts his most daring film yet with the Palme d’Or-winning ‘It Was Just an Accident.’ With an admittedly simple premise, the Iranian filmmaker defies authority with simple gestures that speak louder than a thousand words.
Read MoreMore exhausting than it is compelling, Richard Linklater fails to meaningfully illustrate who Lorenz Hart is in his chamber piece, ‘Blue Moon’.
Read More‘After the Hunt’ may be the most contemptuous movie of the year, and that’s precisely why it works. Luca Guadagnino confronts the audience’s conception of the truth and forces them to rethink how they perceive and view movies as he rejects dialogue to focus on the strongest images of his career.
Read More‘Anemone’ should only be watched by those craving another performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, because the film surrounding his incredible, controlled turn does not work at all.
Read MoreThanks to a painterly sense of image-making and captivating turns from Marion Cotillard and Clara Pacini, Lucile Hadžihalilović creates a unique atmosphere with ‘The Ice Tower’, blending the artifice of cinema with the trauma-inducing dread of a child’s fantasy.
Read MoreBenny Safdie breaks the aesthetics that he developed over the years with his brother Josh to craft a surprisingly patient, often discordant docudrama in ‘The Smashing Machine’, which sets his solo directorial career on exciting horizons.
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