Based on the novel by Robert Littell (which was already made into a 1981 film of the same name), The Amateur is the story of an introverted decoder and analyst […]

Although it sometimes feels like we’re watching a history textbook or a lengthy biography, writer/director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a sprawling, visually engrossing cinematic lesson in technology, innovation, American hubris, […]

I spent a long time trying to figure out how to tackle a review of a film that is less a traditional James Bond movie and more a victory lap, […]

The new year is young, but thank goodness we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of weeks into it to hit our first big-budget, military-grade stink-bomb of 2020. […]

I’ve never read either of the books written by Henri Charrière upon which Papillon is based, but I can tell you that the 1973 film is a perfect movie—a character […]