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The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s first film in 10 years, is ostensibly based on a book: Martin Amis’s stomach-churning 2014 novel of the...
Sofia Coppola’s heroines are surrounded by people and lonely as hell, enveloped in a cage visible only to them. The Priscilla of Priscilla is maybe...
The Hollywood actors’ strike is finally ending. Late in the evening on November 8 — 118 days after walking off set — SAG-AFTRA, the union for...
From its first moments, Pain Hustlers sets out to distinguish itself from the pack of recent series and movies about the opioid crisis with one simple...
Few things are more irksome than the contemporary impulse (I think we can blame it on Lost) to decode every TV show as though it’s a puzzle to be...
I’ve been writing about movies for a long time, but even I find myself with a lot of questions that go unanswered. Why do my palms get sweaty when I...
To paraphrase Soren Kierkegaard: A movie must be watched forward, but the best movies beg to be understood backward. Killers of the Flower Moon ,...
There are many ways to tell a story, especially one that really happened, and this fact has lately tugged at Martin Scorsese’s mind. In movies like...
The Hollywood writers strike officially ended on Tuesday, October 10, when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted to ratify its contract with the...
The short film is a neglected form of American entertainment, prevalent — you can find them most anywhere, and pretty much every filmmaker has made...
Cat Person — the movie adaptation of the New Yorker short story that took over your Twitter feed in December 2017 — starts with a now-familiar...
Six years ago, almost to the day, I sat in a Toronto movie theater and watched Louis C.K.’s directorial debut, a winking Woody Allen tribute...
The identity of the titular, singular “exorcist” of The Exorcist has always been a little murky. In the 1973 original — which overcame studio...
Hollywood’s longest and most costly labor strike has ended. Late in the day on Sunday, September 24 — after 146 days of labor stoppage, the...
We aren’t born knowing who the heroes are. We’re taught to see them, instilled with desires to wear their cape, don their uniform, doff their...
Hollywood’s longest and most costly labor strikes may finally be coming to an end. Late in the day on Sunday, September 24 – after 146 days of...
Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what...
Trying to figure out what’s going on with the Hollywood double strike — both writers and actors are still on the picket lines — can feel like...
Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what...
Six years ago, almost to the day, I sat in a Toronto movie theater and watched Louis C.K.’s directorial debut, a winking Woody Allen tribute...