Greetings, fellow exhausteds, and welcome to The Best Films of 2020, a year that, despite being less than 365 days old, has aged so rapidly that Gary Oldman is circling the biopic. Some, uh, unusual stuff happ...
Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a directorial polyglot, no doubt about it, but he's more fluent in some cinematic languages than others. Having more or less co-founded the J-horror wave, and with "Pulse...
Choose your fighter: Orson Welles, recently back in LA after a decade of European exile, and embarking on a project so meta he will emulate the film's director-protagonist and die at 70 never having finished i...
In almost no way does Chloé Zhao's quiet, enormous, deep breath of a movie, "Nomadland," resemble "Blade Runner." Except there's this one moment: an outstanding speech in a film as attuned to vast wild silence...
So somebody somewhere one day had a thought: "What if 'Die Hard' except a school shooting?" and not only didn't they immediately check themselves for other symptoms of lead poisoning but thought, "Yep, that's ...
An audacious what-if scenario lies at the heart of Regina King's poised, well-crafted but conceptually conflicted directorial debut, "One Night in Miami," a high-minded drama that plays as an all-star real-lif...
Over a year after Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant loosed each other's corsets and fell in love in a French Cannes film, and less than a week before Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are due to do the same in coas...
It's a proper shame we're not allowed physical contact at the moment, because Quentin Dupieux's "Mandibles," among its many other silly pleasures, offers up a modified fist-bump-style handshake that could easi...
Sometimes – not often enough – a movie doesn't play on a screen in front of you so much as it happens to you. And while I can't guarantee everyone's mileage will be the same, from about five minutes in, from ...
You could dine on nothing but lard for twenty years and still not develop the hardness of heart necessary to avoid being won over by Roger Michell's "The Duke," a ridiculously charming British comedy that dunk...