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 MoreJim Jarmusch crafts his best movie since 2003’s ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ with ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’, but the end result of his latest anthology effort is still much wobblier than what we used to expect from the American filmmaker.
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 MoreDerek Drymon’s name is one that longtime SpongeBob watchers have undoubtedly seen pop up on their favorite episodes. Now as director of ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants’, not only did he deliver a fun film, but one in the same vein as the cartoon’s glory days.
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 MoreJames Cameron offers another lesson in blockbuster filmmaking with the daring ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’, through three hours of dazzling mythopoetic images that remind you what all great art should strive to achieve.
Read MoreWhile Bryan Fuller’s ‘Dust Bunny’ bristles with an imaginative visual style and an intriguing world to explore, it’s often bogged down by unimpressive CGI theatrics, despite Mads Mikkelsen and Sophie Sloan attempting to hold the fort.
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 MoreWhile ‘Eternity’ boasts a compelling concept, the movie’s repetitive structure leaves much to be desired as it trudges through a predictable conclusion with little to no emotional impact.
Read MoreWith ‘The Mastermind’, the great American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt delivers a tremendous film - one efficiently controlled in its aesthetics and humor, anchored by Josh O’Connor performance.
Read MoreJon M. Chu and his eclectic cast return to the magical world of Oz to deliver what amounts to nothing but an overly infantile and ultimately dishonest adaptation of its source material in ‘Wicked for Good’.
Read MoreOz Perkins has yet to make something worthwhile in the opinion of our Maxance Vincent, but with his sixth feature, ‘Keeper’, the film could be the worst project he has ever helmed.
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 More‘Nouvelle Vague’ may be Avengers: Endgame for the Cahiers du Cinéma crowd, but the film is devoid of any substance beyond the aesthetic recreations of one of the most groundbreaking motion pictures that forever changed cinema.
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.
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