ALL REVIEWS

STRIPPERS AND COCAINE

ANORA | NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Director Sean Baker cements his status as one of our great living directors with this original story about the relationship between fun and trouble.

UNCIVILIZED

CIVIL WAR | APRIL 14, 2024

Sci-fi storyteller Alex Garland uses different tools to different ends in Civil War (2024).

ESSENCE, AND EXCELLENCE

THE TASTE OF THINGS | FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Juliet Binoche and Benoît Magimel star in Anh Hung Tran’s new film about the essence of life, and living.

BUT A DREAM

ALL OF US STRANGERS | JANUARY 8, 2024

Two rising stars are luminous in Andrew Haigh’s meditation on limbo, brevity and the vitality of connection.

WHEN THE PLAN DOESN’T STICK

THE killer | november 7, 2023

Like the title, plot and interiority of the protagonist, modern master of dread and decline David Fincher keeps things thin in his latest thriller.

Let the Great Mind Spin

THE CREATOR | OCTOBER 2, 2023

Machines who raise children, mourn each others’ passings and embark on a human-like quest for freedom ask us to question what is artificial in The Creator.

QUICK ON THE DRAW

STRANGE WAY OF LIFE | OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pressed for time, cowboys seek connection in a different, male-focused sliver of the west by master of emotion Pedro Almodovar.

i may destroy me

monkey man | APRIL 19, 2024

Actor Dev Patel takes his seat at the high table of action with his directorial debut, Monkey Man (2024).

HOUSE OF INDULGENCE

SALTBURN | november 21, 2023

Director Emerald Fennell and a capable cast get their hands dirty toying with tropes in her indulgent second feature.

GREAT SPIRIT, FULL BLOOD

killers of the flower moon | OCTOBER 24, 2023