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 …
At this point, I don’t need much more than Margaret Qualley (The Substance) on a poster. I’ve followed her since The Leftovers, still one of the best shows of the century, and it’s been a pleasure watching everyone else catch up. Between Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Poor Things, …
Millie Calloway has a driving need to help women in trouble. In the past, this has gotten her into some bad situations. But that’s all behind her now; she’s going to college to get her degree in social work so she can help women the legal way. But in the …
A family is a fragile thing too often taken for granted, and once the love is gone it’s very hard to bring back. A Common Story has an unusual gimmick: it is about a family, but the child hardly features. For she has grown up and gone off to university, …
Wu Ying is well on his way on the Thousand Li Journey. He has moved from being an outer sect member to an inner sect member in just a few short months. Now he has to keep working on his cultivation and choose a secondary occupation. The options are many …
The first thing I liked about this movie was its title. The 1953 ascent of Everest has often been told as Edmund Hillary’s story, with the Sherpa who reached the summit beside him mentioned as the other guy in the photo. This film is called Tenzing. Not “Everest,” not “The …
Some will debate the pertinence of a movie starting with a quote, but I found myself particularly amused by how Rob Savage’s Other Mommy begins with a line attributed to Aynar of Erebus, stating, “A chance to be human, the miracle that we mistake for the ordinary, is coveted by …
Sometimes it feels like modern technology has given us the worst of both worlds. We have the capacity to be constantly connected with our loved ones no matter where in the world we may be. This can provide the illusion that we are in the same place as those we …
This review of season 4 of Ted Lasso will include spoilers. Please be advised! As news of season 4 of Ted Lasso began to take shape, people had questions. Jason Sudeikis had said that he only envisioned three seasons for the series, and despite the clamoring from the fans, he …
Hamlet is an Everest, as director Richard Eyre (Johnny Flynn) announces to his assembly of actors early on in Elsinore, Simon Stone’s film opening the London Film Festival. The title role alone has 4167 lines. Mounting a production at the National Theatre of Great Britain’s Olivier Theatre, which seats 1100, …
The camera never stops moving in Joko Anwar’s thrilling Ghost in the Cell. It moves and moves and moves and moves until it hits us with a sequence of gore so extreme, so visceral, that it will likely put off viewers who thought this genre offering would be more sophisticated. …
The action will be great, and I’ll forgive the story. That’s been the deal with Sam Hargrave (Extraction) since his directing debut. Back in 2020, I stopped the first Extraction mid-viewing just to go back and watch its oner again. The 21-minute oner in Extraction 2 is still something I’d …
I almost skipped this one. The press screening for The Social Reckoning was early in the morning, I was exhausted, and a follow-up to The Social Network without David Fincher (Se7en) directing or Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain) playing Mark Zuckerberg didn’t sound urgent enough to drag myself out of …
So this is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with a bunch of French politicians arguing with each other in a meeting room. As France grapples with the new world order, where America is no longer an ally and Russia is very much worse, its art has …
The language – and structure – of animated films needs to be reinvented within Hollywood. Stale stories are unfortunately plaguing our screens, despite formal inventiveness at almost every turn. Hollywood has released plenty of great animated offerings this year, but has any given the audience something truly different? Hoppers was …