Gotham Chopra appropriates the classic language of IMAX documentaries in his free-flowing essay, Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry. What could’ve been a traditional piece of hagiography actually elevates its extreme glazing of Stephen Curry through a larger-than-life framing of a basketball giant as he accomplishes one of the greatest …
The Middleburg Film Festival is tucked away in the scenic, hunt-country suburbs of Washington, DC. It has become one of the premier regional festivals to watch during the fall awards campaigns. Over the past weekend, the festival rang in its 14th year with celebrated guests, post-film Q&As, panels, and a …
Every opinion I came across about The Only Living Pickpocket in New York before seeing it was positive. I didn’t see a single negative take, and with nothing else to go on, that consensus was carrying all of my expectations. I’m unfamiliar with Noah Segan as a director, as I …
Tom Kennedy and his son Jake aren’t doing well. After the death of Tom’s wife, Jake’s mother, a few months ago, Tom feels like there’s a gulf between them that he just can’t cross. Hoping that a new home in a new town will help bring them closer, Tom lets …
There is a really boring recent trend in world cinema to make movies about rich people learning valuable lessons. From Triangle of Sadness onwards there has been too many movies about affluent people being all surprised that someone’s money is not the most important thing about them. The trouble is …
Company is directed by Casey Affleck, whose reputation as an actor is not unblemished, and whose reputation as a director will not be helped by the fact there are eight (eight!) credited cinematographers on Company, including himself. It is also not necessarily a positive thing that two of the movie’s …
You won’t have to wait long for directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson to answer the question at the top of most audience members’ minds when diving into Wicker. An adaptation of Ursula Mills’ “The Wicker Husband,” the directorial duo, who are also a real-life couple, know that most moviegoers wonder how on earth Olivia Colman’s …
Arguably, the most terrifying horror stories involve children. Whether it’s as the spook or the victim, it’s just scarier when there’s a child involved. I think it has to do with the innocence and vulnerability of children. We don’t want anything bad to happen to such little guys. But as …
Alejandro G. Iñárritu might have won the discourse game with Digger, but Romain Gavras has won the metatextual satire on the climate crisis with Sacrifice. The critically maligned character study on a vacuous actor suddenly caught in the middle of a terrorist attack during a climate change convention was largely …
We all know how the saying goes, there’s a first time for everything. For this film critic, Verity is officially my first ever delve into the world of Colleen Hoover film adaptations. Yes, Verity is yet another adaptation of a Hoover novel following the recent string of them chasing after …
Life for Carrie has been rough. She’s a severely abused teenage girl who’s been the butt of every joke at school for her whole life. Usually, she just takes it, and at this point, even expects it. But something has changed. After a very traumatic first period, it’s like blood …
Once again Tom Cruise has tried to hit a triple but instead has been immediately caught by the shortstop for a major out. Mr. Cruise’s first non-action role since his Axl Rose impression in 2012’s Rock of Ages was meant to be a bonanza for both the man as well …
My bar for Street Fighter was “fine,” and I don’t mean that as an insult. I went in expecting a perfectly okay video game adaptation with thin characters, story, and overall writing, and I was at peace with that. All I needed was action good enough and pacing fast enough …
Get ready to never look at a restaurant the same way again. I’m sure you assumed that professional kitchens are fast-paced and stressful; it’s not Grandma cooking one meal for your family after all- it’s dozens of chefs making countless dishes for hundreds of people. Each dish has a different …
It might be necessary to have a certain kind of family to truly appreciate this kind of disaster movie. If you know someone – your sister-in-law, perhaps? Or your least favourite cousin? – whose reaction on learning another relative will not be attending Christmas dinner is “How dare that bitch …
Jierz lost everything when a monster killed everyone in her village except for her and her friend Halesz. But then she lost him too when she found out that he wasn’t human either. Jierz vowed to kill the monster who ruined her life, so she joined up with some monster …
Christopher Nolan may have made many a release that is regarded as his best; and that’s the telltale sign of a good director. You get debates over The Prestige, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Memento and more, but one film that doesn’t crop up as often as it should is Dunkirk. …
The self-indulgence of Hombre al Agua (which translates to “Man Overboard”) is kind of its point, for it’s about the ways people play parts in their lives and how privilege allows the privileged to change the terms of the act. Fortunately a movie in which the writer-director-coproducer also stars as …
MobLand season one was a pleasant television surprise in 2025. It was not revelatory, but it was incredibly entertaining genre fare. The season lived as a respectful inclusion in the vast pantheon of gangster stories. Now entering its second season only one question remains. Can season two maintain the pulsating …
Back in 2023, Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You) turned a nearly wordless Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart), a lonely house, and some of the best sound design of that year into one of my favorite surprises, and his name has been on my radar ever since. Before that, he co-wrote …