Cyrano, the musical starring Peter Dinklage as the man himself and Haley Bennett as his beloved Roxane, was written by Peter’s wife and directed by Haley’s husband. Creative teams should…
1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was a reckoning with violence as art. Such a stark depiction of senseless violence was anathema to American cinema. People didn’t know what to…
Disney-owned Death on the Nile hews closely to the Agatha Christie novel, save for one notable exception: it begins with an origin story for detective Poirot’s mustache. It’s far more…
I like to think that Joel Coen adapted Macbeth out of sheer pettiness, seeing as his brother and longtime collaborator took a break from filmmaking to “focus on theater”. Or,…
Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, feels like Boogie Nights and moves like Inherent Vice. Tonally, it’s more buoyant and freewheeling than anything he’s made since Boogie; structurally, it shaggy…
Unlike Into the Spider-Verse, which felt like passion leaping from page to screen, the multiversal mayhem of Spider-Man: No Way Home feels palpably born of corporate synergy. The decision to…
The Academy awarded Guillermo del Toro Best Picture for a movie about romancing a fish, so he’s thrown Hollywood a bone with Nightmare Alley, a noir morality play about the…
West Side Story is Steven Spielberg’s first passion project in nearly a decade, but it’s been gestating in his mind for much longer. Ever since the 90s, he’s been telling…
The central metaphor of Don’t Look Up isn’t playing coy. A massive, “planet-killing” comet hurtles toward Earth, giving the entire human race just six months to live. Diverting the comet…
Tick, Tick… Boom! isn’t a tragedy, but it’s sure tragic in context. The musical was written by Jonathan Larson—the man who’d go on to write Rent—before he achieved widespread success.…
The Power of the Dog is the first film in over a decade from Jane Campion, the esteemed director of The Piano. Rather than return to the screen by dipping…
Kenneth Branagh’s directing career follows the path of a pendulum swing. In the 90s, he wrote, directed, and starred in some of the best Shakespeare adaptations to date; in the…
