Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World is Caustically Delightful
With When You Finish Saving the World, Jesse Eisenberg directs Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard to strong turns as a mother-son duo united by self-obsession.
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“The Glorias” is a run-of-the-mill biopic about a living legend
Julie Taymor directs Julianne Moore in a frustratingly muted look at the feminist movement icon.
The 25 Best Films of 2023
The best films of the year include gritty crime dramas, auteurs returning with bold new works, and quirky comedies.
CIFF 2023: May December is another snaky Todd Haynes classic
Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman glisten, but Charles Melton shines in a twisted tale of the ways we shape our realities, and the lengths we go to understand scandal. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch In such films as Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Velvet Goldmine and I’m Not There, filmmaker Todd Haynes has taken the … CIFF 2023: May December is another snaky Todd Haynes classic
Sharper lacks some much-needed edge
Despite its solid performances & elegant look, the Apple TV+ thriller mostly falls flat.
P.S.H. I Love You: repairing the world in Magnolia
One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s finest moments has him playing a beacon of comfort and compassion.
“Lisey’s Story” is beautiful, moving & very long
Stephen King adapts one of his most personal novels in a lavish, well-acted production that maybe should have been six episodes instead of eight.
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” is a strange final film for Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final role, as a CG-assisted reprise in the final Hunger Games films, is more a commemoration than a performance.
The 2021 Foreign Language Oscar shortlist is full of female-led gems
Here’s hoping this year’s Academy Awards doesn’t leave female directors out of awards contention for best foreign film.
PSH is marvelous in “The Big Lebowski”
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the ultimate lackey in The Coen Brothers’ gleefully silly stoner comedy.
P.S.H. I Love You: Hoffman serves up sleaze in the middling “Red Dragon”
Try as he might, Philip Seymour Hoffman can’t lend enough sleaze to Brett Ratner’s Hannibal Lecter sequel to make it feel less like a bland retread.
Sex and the Single Woman: How “An Unmarried Woman” changed the game
Paul Mazursky’s 1974 drama captured the complexities of restlessness, desire, and sexuality of the modern ‘70s woman. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch Sex is not shocking anymore. After years of cable television, the advent of pornography on the internet, and the “tasteful nude”, we’ve acclimatized to the idea of sex on screen. When An Unmarried Woman … Sex and the Single Woman: How “An Unmarried Woman” changed the game
The “Psycho” remake is an ironically bloodless exercise in technique
Gus Van Sant’s remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic is a cut-and-paste exercise that plays like little more than a rehash of the original.
The Quarantine Film Festival: Streaming Through the Coronavirus
A comprehensive guide to the streaming films you should watch as you quarantine from the coronavirus.
10 Films We’re Excited to See at Sundance 2020
New films by Julie Taymor, Dee Rees, and Justin Simien mix with fascinating new docs and debut features in our list of Sundance 2020 must-sees.
From the Ranks of the Freaks: “Magnolia” at 20
Paul Thomas Anderson’s character study baffled, aggravated & emotionally moved a divisive audience.
After the Wedding Review: A grown-up drama that doesn’t trust its own story
This English-language remake of the 2006 Danish drama stops short of having anything interesting to say about its privileged protagonists.
“Assassins” Was the Wachowskis’ First Big Break, For Better or Worse
Before they made their directorial debut, Lana and Lilly Wachowski wrote the Stallone-Banderas actioner Assassins, a far cry from their future work.
The Top 25 TV Shows of 2021
This year’s best in TV took us from the furthest reaches of space to murder mysteries in small Philly towns.