The Hand of God
Considerably scaled down in scope and visual energy from his previous Oscar nominated existential films, The Great Beauty and Youth, Paulo Sorrentino's The Hand of God is an artfully crafted [...]
Nightmare Alley
In a far darker return to more macabre terrain after his Oscar win for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro still finds his footing in genre filmmaking in the [...]
Being the Ricardos
Though Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's stardom has faded in the 30 years since their deaths, Aaron Sorkin's biopic casts the late, iconic duo with some marital dynamics under the [...]
Don’t Look Up
Messy, overlong but also deeply satirical, Don't Look Up plays like an extended SNL skit. Adam McKay's follow-up to Vice, and his most satirical political film yet, amounts to a [...]
France
Brimming with confident craftsmanship, cynicism, satire, and dramatic weight, Bruno Dumont's ferocious France views France's political climate and mass media through its anti-hero, a French reporter named France (Lea Seydoux), [...]
Drive My Car
A chronicle of grief, healing, and the power of the creative process are all familiar themes we have seen numerous times before, but rarely are they executed with the delicateness, [...]
Benedetta
A provocative and subversive condemnation of dogmatic oppression that is undercut by an overstuffed screenplay and an over-the-top third act with overripe melodrama is all found in Paul Verhoeven's (Robocop, [...]
The Souvenir: Part II
Artistically speaking, The Souvenir: Part II is to The Souvenir what The Godfather: Part II was to The Godfather: a masterful follow-up to an essential masterpiece that is equally great, [...]
C’mon C’mon
C'mon C'mon, the fourth feature by Mike Mills, represents his most successful film yet, whose often colorfully quirky films and eccentric films have often proved to be overly precious and [...]
The Power of the Dog
The Power of the Dog is a brilliant, oblique adaptation of Thomas Savage's 1967 novel of the same name. Reinforced by an unpredictable premise, superlative performances, a modern view of [...]