The Holdovers
A deeply humane and fully sustained absorption in loneliness, grief, world history, and philosophy, along with frequent quarrels between a history instructor and a small group of New England boarding [...]
Priscilla
Melancholic, poetic, and deeply empathetic, Sofia Coppola's biopic Priscilla follows Priscilla Presley and her relationship, marriage, and breakup with Elvis Presley. The film is a compelling, stylish portrait of a [...]
The Killer (2023)
Carrying on the tradition of glossy hitman thrillers like La Samourai, Leon: The Professional, Kill Bill, and, of course, John Woo's own The Killer, David Fincher's 12th feature, The Killer, [...]
2013 Retrospective: The Best Films of 2013
At the end of 2013, an old friend said 2013 was a year that reflected our cultural crossroads. It was exactly a year after President Obama won re-election that the [...]
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese's contemplative and high-minded American epic Western crime drama is based on the 2017 non-fiction novel of the same title by David Grann. Killers of the Flower Moon arrives [...]
Anatomy of a Fall
To say that Juliet Triet's courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall is riveting and worthy of all its praise on the festival circuit would be something of an understatement. This [...]
She Came to Me
The ending is quite charming—and so is the beginning—in She Came to Me, Rebecca Miller's (Personal Velocity, Maggies Plan) offbeat romance about an aging opera composer attempting to make a [...]
The Royal Hotel
While the suffocating and lurking elements of The Assistant (2020) may have been the most impressive factor, the emotional depth of courage and endurance invested by Kitty Green in the [...]
Cassandro
A bone-jarring and equally sensual mix of human emotion and lucha libre smackdowns, Cassandro shapes up as a compelling biographical character study about Mexican luchador pro wrestler Saúl Armendariz, who [...]
Dumb Money
We have had many films be released about the current century's most trying historical events ranging from 9/11, to the IRAQ War, and the 2008 Financial crises to name just [...]