The new decade is here! It’s a time for resolutions and new beginnings—or circling back to old beginnings, if that’s more your speed. You’d be in (arguably) good company: after…
In the grand tradition of Rope and Birdman, war film 1917 is made to look like it was all filmed in one shot, even though it wasn’t. It made sense…
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is (at least) the sixteenth time that the story has been committed to film. Its adaptations have taken many forms over the years: TV miniseries, modern…
The Safdie brothers are back and more chaotic than ever. Their previous film Good Time, a crime thriller about a scumbag’s tenacious quest for wealth, brought them acclaim and mainstream…
One could describe the life of writer/director Terrence Malick as “hidden”. The filmmaker is famously private—he hasn’t been interviewed since 1979, and his rare public appearances are treated like miraculous…
“And I saw a Beast rising from the alley that had animal fur and human limbs, and on its collar a ridiculous name. And the Beast that I saw was…
The end of the Skywalker saga is finally here. After one conclusion, a sixteen-year break, a second conclusion, a ten-year break, and four additional years of Star Wars, the third…
Writing about Knives Out without spoiling anything is nigh impossible. Many of the movie’s pleasures, themes, and political messages are wrapped up in its twists, making any meaningful dissection of…
Waves is the first non-horror film from writer/director Trey Edward Shults. His previous film was It Comes at Night, which is definitely a horror movie, and before that came Krisha,…
Did we really need another Mr. Rogers movie after last year’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the excellent documentary about the icon’s life and death? Of course we did, you…
Writer/director Noah Baumbach has made quite the career out of writing what he knows. One thing he knows is movies—both of his parents were celebrated film critics—and another thing is,…
Charlie’s Angels has a complicated history as feminist media, to say the least. A team of kickass women was certainly subversive in the 70s, but the show’s producers might’ve been…
