Mira Nair turns a dreary novel into something bright and beautiful, and changed how we looked at it.
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Mira Nair’s 1988 breakout remains a scintillating tale of poverty in India’s slums, even as it toes the line of exploitation.
We start 2021 by profiling the vibrant, richly textured, deceptively political works of Mira Nair.
David Fincher’s syrupy historical fantasy is as sumptuously filmed as it is shallowly written.
The Netflix series feels as much about the components of Fincher’s exacting style as it does the origins of forensic profiling.
David Fincher’s meticulous anti-murder-mystery is a curious marriage of thriller and romantic comedy.
The 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s hit novel does right by its investigators but drags out the story around them.
David Fincher’s 2010 drama about the founding of Facebook is nothing without Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ groundbreaking score.
Arguably one of David Fincher’s best films, Zodiac focuses on the tedium of a murder investigation, rather than the crimes themselves.
David Fincher’s Hitchcockian thriller is one of his twistiest, best early works.
One of David Fincher’s more straightforward suspense thrillers, Panic Room finds that greed always levels the playing ground.
David Fincher’s 1995 serial killer thriller elevates the police procedural into a grimy fable about mankind’s fall from grace.
David Fincher and Madonna had one of the most exciting artistic collaborations of the ’90s, but made the material girl too immaterial.
David Fincher’s first feature may have angered people at the time, but it continues to prove equally daring as a sequel and a debut.
In honor of the release of Mank, we look back at the director who’s continued to blend noir, thriller, black comedy, and mainstream appeal.
Kathryn Bigelow’s most recent film is a brutal, unblinking look at police brutality.
Nearly eight years later, Zero Dark Thirty continues to court controversy by stubbornly refusing to argue for or against the lengths America took to find Osama bin Laden.
Kathryn Bigelow takes her innate sense of the mechanisms of masculinity into a sorely-overlooked Russian submarine drama.