In case you haven’t heard, the writers’ and actors’ guilds of America are currently on strike together for the first time since 1960 because film studios are treating them like—and…
As Wes Anderson hones the rhythms and compositions of his impeccably detailed scenes (which, despite all the TikToks doing Anderson impressions, amount to more than posing symmetrically and adjusting crooked…
A forbidden love between fire and water may not be the most creative concept, but at no point does Elemental make a “steamy romance” pun, so these writers are working…
2018’s Into the Spider-Verse is still the best thing to happen to superhero movies in the last decade, so the notion of a sequel was both exciting and troubling: after…
I may be misremembering—something about Fast & Furious warps my brain—but I think Fast X has more footage from past Fast films than of Vin Diesel speaking. The opening sequence…
Of the myriad reasons for the MCU’s due collapse, perhaps the most deflating on a surface level is that it’s just not telling good stories. Marvel’s insistence on releasing fifty…
Now that “looks like John Wick” is a genre unto itself, we have to make space for “looks like John Wick but isn’t really,” a canon growing by the day.…
The films of Kelly Reichardt are oft described as “observational”—by us boldly original critics and by Reichardt herself—and it really is a fitting label. The way her camera lingers and…
With Your Name, Weathering with You, and now Suzume, Shinkai Makoto has achieved a distinctive artistic milestone: telling three spins on the same story but with such finesse each time…
Comic books and video games are fine and all, but it’s nice to see political theory, the most popular genre of all, get adapted for the movies. There are plenty…
Of all the big video game mascots, Mario lends himself to a movie adaptation perhaps the very least. Movies (usually) need characters and a story, two things Mario has done…
My experience with Dungeons & Dragons extends to fitfully DMing (that’s “dungeon mastering”—essentially curating and narrating the adventure, for those uninitiated) my first game with a group of other brand-new…
