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‘The Mandalorian’ Launches Second Season With Confident, Action-Packed Episode [Review]

October 30, 2020 9:50 am

Remember blockbusters? The closest anyone will get to that blockbuster feeling in Fall 2020 is the second season of Disney+’s flagship series, “The Mandalorian,” which dropped its premiere this morning, a litt...

Amanda Seyfried Is ‘Mank’s Oscar Surprise

Gregory Ellwood

October 29, 2020 10:30 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Features, News

Before we begin, it should be noted that reviews for David Fincher's much anticipated new film "Mank" are currently embargoed. In that context, we're only here to just discuss the "Netflix International Pictur...

‘Memories Of Murder’: Bong Joon Ho’s Crime Masterpiece Remains Impactful With Its Murky Morality

Roxana Hadadi

October 23, 2020 2:27 pm

Essays, Features, News, Reviews

Regardless of genre, the films of South Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho persistently probe at the divide between the powerful and the powerless. The shape of that power is often tied to whatever cinematic form with...

The Essentials: The Films Of Ben Wheatley

Nicholas Laskin

October 22, 2020 1:07 pm

Features, News

Watching a Ben Wheatley film can be a wonderfully disorienting experience. Wheatley enjoys getting under his audience’s skin: he lives to make us uncomfortable and delights in showing us images that may make u...

The Essentials: The Films Of Sofia Coppola

Nicholas Laskin

October 21, 2020 1:56 pm

Features, News

To some degree, it’s become too easy to criticize Sofia Coppola. She’s the daughter of Hollywood royalty, she makes movies about an extremely narrow and generally well-to-do portion of society, and over the co...

‘Borat 2’: Wa Wa Wee Wa, ‘Subsequent Moviefilm’ Is Very Niiice… Not! [Review]

Rodrigo Perez

October 21, 2020 12:08 pm

Features, News, Reviews

Lightning rarely strikes twice in life, even less frequently in the realm of comedies. And in the case of Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” a sequel to his “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America...

‘The Witches’: Anne Hathaway Casts An Exasperating Spell In Robert Zemeckis’ Dull Film [Review]

Andrew Crump

October 21, 2020 12:00 pm

Features, News, Reviews

There are children’s movies, and then there are movies that are straight-up childish. Robert Zemeckis’ “The Witches,” the second adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel of the same name arriving 30 years after Nicola...

The Best Horror Films Of 2020 (So Far)

Andrew Crump

October 20, 2020 2:18 pm

Features, News

It’s October, and that means it's the time of year when everyone loves horror movies, even now when horror’s modern mainstream popularity is at a high. So, here's a modest proposal: Stop releasing horror movie...

Luca Guadagnino Talks ‘We Are Who We Are,’ Unmade Projects & His Definition of Cinema [Interview]

Robert Daniels

October 15, 2020 12:09 pm

Features, Interviews, News

It seems even a pandemic cannot quell Luca Guadagnino’s creative spirit. The Italian auteur, known for the arresting “A Bigger Splash” and the body horror-remake “Suspiria,” among a bevy of uncompleted project...

‘Rebecca’: Ben Wheatley’s Hitchcock Riff Is A Pale Iteration Of A Classic Gothic Horror

Beatrice Loayza

October 15, 2020 12:00 am

Features, News, Reviews

Somewhere between the transcendent Alfred Hitchcock original and a total misfire lies Ben Wheatley’s shiny new "Rebecca." An innocuous adaptation of the 1938 novel by Daphne Du Maurier, the latest Net-flick sh...

‘The Undoing’: Nicole Kidman Awakens From A Privileged Cocoon Of Self-Delusion In Susanne Bier’s Pulpy Thriller [Review]

Rodrigo Perez

October 14, 2020 2:07 pm

Features, News, Reviews, Television

The creative team of Nicole Kidman, HBO, David E. Kelley, and Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier (also an Emmy winner) screams high-end prestige TV project. The limited series, “The Undoing,” a pulpy ...

‘Soul’ Vividly Recaptures Joy & Is A Mesmerizing Return To Form For Pixar [Review]

Jack King

October 14, 2020 12:27 pm

Features, News, Reviews

Once upon a time, you were guaranteed flawlessness from a Pixar production, aside from the odd “Cars” flick here and there. The studio has, however, become something of a sequel mill over the past decade, boas...

‘French Exit’: With No F*cks To Give, Michelle Pfeiffer Sets An Icy World Of Privilege Ablaze [NYFF Review]

Tomris Laffly

October 11, 2020 8:55 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

A Tragedy of Manners. This is how bestselling author Patrick DeWitt’s satirical novel “French Exit” was billed upon its publishing in 2018. That description is also spot-on for this elegant, droll, and heartbr...

‘The Boys” Eric Kripke On Season Two’s Timely Parallels & The Incredible Antony Starr [Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

October 9, 2020 2:52 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Features, Interviews, News

Yes, heads literally explode. There is often more over-the-top violence then you can possibly imagine. And, we admit, a character with a super-enhanced phallus might have been a bit too much. But, shocks aside...

‘To Die For’ At 25: The Fame Chasing In Gus Van Sant’s Drama Is As Toxic As Ever

Roxana Hadadi

October 6, 2020 1:05 pm

Essays, Features, News

To watch Nicole Kidman in Gus Van Sant’s black-comedy/thriller fusion "To Die For" is to understand how a combination of ruthless ambition and careless vapidity can spawn a self-absorbed media landscape that l...