The characters in the new romantic-comedy Anyone But You spend a great deal of time walking away from each other when their feelings get hurt rather than sticking around and […]
From Illumination, the animation studio that brought us the Despicable Me, Minions, and The Secret Life of Pets franchises, comes a slightly more accomplished tale of conquering your feelings and […]
If I’m understanding the stories behind the creation of the latest opus from filmmaker Zack Snyder, it was conceived as a possible Star Wars movie. For whatever reason, that didn’t […]
Considering the original Aquaman is the highest-grossing DC film of all time, it’s hard to understand why a sequel took five years since that film’s release to arrive. But a […]
You may question why a film set in the world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s is something you should care about. I would counter by telling you that […]
After adapting Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in Peter von Kant (2002), and tackling medically assisted suicides in Everything Went Fine (2021), a youthful gay […]
When you go deep into the woods on a public figure, you better be damn sure that their life outside of whatever it was that made them famous is a […]
The first thing to know about Wonka, the latest film to revisit the Roald Dahl-created candyman and his antics, is that this version is the brainchild of co-writer and director […]
Taking a page from the Spellbound playbook, Polish-born director Jakub Piatek (Prime Time) follows a handful of young contestants in the world-famous International Chopin Piano Competition, held every five years […]
It’s rare that documentaries get sequels, but director Denny Tedesco follows up his remarkable 2008 music doc The Wrecking Crew!—about a sizable group of L.A.-based studio musicians who played on […]
This article was written by Lauren Coates. Between awards darlings like The Favourite and offbeat fan favorites including The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos’ filmography […]
I’m guessing that the societal subtext of author Rumaan Alam’s National Book Award-nominated novel Leave the World Behind is a bit more subtle and sinister than the current adaptation by […]