FX’s new docuseries based on Errol Morris’ book is engaging at points but fails to fully defend its own point.
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Chloé Zhao presents another yearning, lyrical look at life on the margins, anchored by a profoundly moving Frances McDormand performance.
The queer-centered YouTube series gets compiled into a winsome feature that works best as a Queer Culture primer.
The extremely slow pacing of Tsai Ming-liang’s study in loneliness pays off with subtle tenderness.
Spike Lee captures all the vibrancy and social import of Byrne’s rightly-acclaimed Broadway show.
Mike Mossalam’s debut feature is a vibrant mosaic of Queer Arab Muslim-American life.
Moshe Zonder, Dana Eden, and Maor Kohn’s new espionage series boasts solid acting and craft in the face of some wonky storytelling.
Philippe Lacôte directs a unique film about a young man who’s forced to tell stories to save his own life.
Resist with all your might the urge to watch this cheap, ugly “erotic horror” anthology just to see how bad it is.
David Fincher’s bleak, gruesome murder mystery packed a punch audiences have never forgotten.
Sam Pollard’s latest documentary is a dense look at Martin Luther King Jr. and the Hoover administration’s attempts to silence him.
Paul Verhoeven’s infamous 1995 satire isn’t Camp going by Susan Sontag’s definition, but it is one of the great American movies.
Gillian Flynn’s new Prime series is an ambitious saga that offers loads to chew on, assuming you can handle the bleakness of it all.
Cameron Crowe’s rock and roll dramedy may not be the most realistic tale, but it’s a keen mix of chaotic and crowd-pleasing.
We finally meet the mysterious other woman in Atticus’s life in a bittersweet episode that brings the series back on track.
True to its name, Song Fang’s low-key drama will soothe your nerves, but not much else.
Paul Mazursky’s 1974 drama captured the complexities of restlessness, desire, and sexuality of the modern ‘70s woman. NOW STREAMING: […]
Ryan Murphy executive produces an origin story no one asked for, with more hollow camp than anyone needs.