A Magnificent Life
The third animated feature from French writer/director Sylvain Chomet, A Magnificent Life doesn't quite reach the emotional impact or narrative innovation of his previous masterpieces, The Triplets of Belleville and [...]
Tow
It's quite evident by now that Rose Byrne is an actress of outstanding range and various textures. In Two, written and directed by Stephanie Laing, Byrne returns as a mother enduring [...]
A Private Life
Co-writer and director Rebecca Zlotowski revisits the whole American in Paris trope in her recent black comedy mystery thriller A Private Life, about a highly regarded psychiatrist, Lilian Steiner (Jodie [...]
The Testament of Ann Lee
A passionate, stylistic, opera-like musical of deep vision and scope, this engaging movie is one of the most idiosyncratic films of the year from the acclaimed duo of co-writer Brady [...]
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The fourth installment in the 28 Days Later film series and part of the double bill that is a direct continuation of 2025's 28 Years Later, the post-apocalyptic horror film [...]
Dead Man’s Wire
Dead Man's Wire is a type of film that any director-for-hire could have easily gotten the job done for this crime thriller. However, household legend Gus Van Sant has turned [...]
The Plague
Very much in the vein of William Golding's Lord of the Flies novel, Charlie Polinger's debut feature that premiered at the Un Certain Regard at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival [...]
Year in Review: The Best Films of 2025
As I walked out of the New York Film Festival back in the fall, I knew I could easily develop a top ten list upon the festival because I knew [...]
Father Mother Sister Brother
Like his previous films (Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Night on Earth), Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Father Mother Sister Brother, is separated by vignettes rather than a traditional narrative, [...]
No Other Choice
Park Chan-wook's follow-up to his highly acclaimed Decision to Leave in 2022 and The Handmaiden in 2016 has now crafted the film of his career with No Other Choice. This [...]