Bugonia
Just midway through his career, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos jumped from Greek cinema into American movies—including some indie cult classics like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer—to [...]
Frankenstein
Wintry, chilling, and captivating, Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a breathtaking retelling of the classic two-century-old novel; it's a horror movie that feels Shakespearian in just [...]
After the Hunt
Director Luca Guadagnino's exceptional and dramatically charged double features from last year, Challengers and Queer, were both skillfully made films that didn't quite get the year-end movie push as they [...]
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Actress and filmmaker Mary Bronstein who is the wife of frequent Safdie Bros collaborator Ronald Bronstein directs her first film since her 2008 film Yeast, that co-stars Greta Gerwig. Based [...]
A House of Dynamite
Kathryn Bigelow's taut, engrossing docudrama A House of Dynamite uses a hypothetical narrative approach as it dives deep in its real time duration of three points of views that involves [...]
P.T. Anderson Retrospective (Film Rankings from Worst to Best)
Easily one of the most extraordinary and gifted visionaries working today, Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the world's most celebrated and renowned filmmakers of our era. With the release [...]
Eleanor the Great
Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, works the best when it focuses on itself as a character study as well as on a close but deceiving friendship. However, it [...]
One Battle After Another
Renowned filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson's engrossing One Battle After Another is a politically charged thriller about combating cruelty, oppression, and power. It also examines the struggles of the revolutionary lifestyle. [...]
The History of Sound
Though it holds many similarities to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, which is based on a short story by author Ben Shattuck who also wrote the screenplay, still holds it's own [...]
2005 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2005
2005 in many ways resembles 2025. Politically, it was a miserable year, as we were in the first year of the second term of George W. Bush, and we had [...]