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 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 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 ‘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 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 MoreYorgos Lanthimos remakes Jang Joon-hwan’s ‘Save the Green Planet!’ with ‘Bugonia’, and the results aren’t as successful as his previous collaborations with Emma Stone, despite its staggering VistaVision photography and solid turns from its lead stars.
Read MoreNoah Baumbach reflects on the dwindling nature of stardom in the metafictional ‘Jay Kelly’, which sees George Clooney grapple with the finitude of a career inside an era that Hollywood now rejects.
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 MoreKleber Mendonça Filho gives us the most important political film of the year with ‘The Secret Agent’, a thriller fluent in both film and political history, with a captivating performance from Wagner Moura anchoring the picture.
Read MoreFrighteningly prescient, renowned documentarian Raoul Peck navigates through generations of fascism with the words of George Orwell.
Read More'The Conjuring: Last Rites’ just doesn't come together in concept or on the page, and the film falls well short as a result. If you’re a fan of this franchise, it may be worth checking out to see the Warrens slow dance into the sunset. Otherwise, this is a wash of an experience at the cinemas.
Read MoreWhile Genndy Tartakovsky has not lost a touch animating expressive characters and worlds, his latest offering, the R-rated ’Fixed’, is painfully unfunny and contains far too much dated humor.
Read MoreWith a towering performance from Danielle Deadwyler and an assured sense of style, director R.T. Thorne breathes new life into Canadian genre cinema with the thrillingly tactile ‘40 Acres’ and ensures a future for this art form.
Read MoreWhile it may not be as narratively and thematically strong as ‘Past Lives’, Celine Song still delivers a jaw-droppingly affecting meditation on love and its intrinsic connection to life with ‘Materialists’.
Read MoreJosh Hartnett fueled widespread conversation last year with his performance in the M. Night Shyamalan thriller ‘Trap’. So, following a polarizing performance such as that one, what is an actor to do next? Star in the B-movie action thriller ‘Fight or Flight’ and dye your hair blonde.
Read MoreBolstered by Tim Robinson's amazing talent, Andrew DeYoung’s ‘Friendship’ is designed to make audiences as uncomfortable as possible during sequences of massive embarrassment that are as aesthetically thrilling as they are painfully hilarious.
Read MoreAll we have to say about ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ is keep the clowns away. They’re always going to be scary - whether they haunt or nightmares or they’re simply a poor suggestion on your playlist.
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