It was when Edgar Wright stepped down from Ant-Man that many people drew a line in the sand: the Marvel machine is simply not compatible with artistic vision. The threat…
Edgar Wright, the British wunderkind-turned-luminary who mastered the art of the genre comedy, is tired of satire. His return to horror is the furthest thing from Shaun of the Dead—it’s…
Few directors have more fun with formalism than Wes Anderson. Every shot of his films is a story unto itself: color, composition, and movement as genre, plot, and prose. Detractors…
Here’s another adaptation of the unadaptable Dune. Director Denis Villeneuve, who dipped his whole body into big-idea sci-fi with Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, has a surefire strategy for wrangling…
The first 30 minutes of Mass are a masterclass in beating around the bush. The opening scenes are run-of-the-mill—volunteers set up a table and four chairs in the basement of…
Having seen nine of the 25 Bond films, I can with great authority declare that Casino Royale is the best of them all. With a spy movie that good, who…
In Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb, humble Icelandic sheep farmers María and Ingvar get quite the shock after helping one of their ewes give birth: a creature with the head of a…
When the first trailer for The Many Saints of Newark dropped, I had never seen a single episode of The Sopranos. By the time I sat down to watch the…
Our memories tend to get crystal clear when looking back on shocking events. You probably remember exactly where you were when your favorite celebrity died, for example. The pain sears…
The story of Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker is a marriage of two different kinds of Christians. Jim Bakker, an infamous televangelist, saw the lucrative potential of Christianity and never…
“I’m not anything at all,” sings St. Vincent on the first song of her first album, sounding like she’s been emancipated. But she would go on to become many things.…
There are a lot of ways to take a story from stage to screen. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the movie based on the hit West End musical, goes the straightforward…
