Showtime’s sequel to the iconic LGBTQ+ series feels refreshing, if frustratingly centrist at times.
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Jay Roach’s retelling of the Fox News harassment scandal has sufficient momentum and typically strong performances to largely overcome its undercooked politics.
Sam Mendes’ Best Picture winner is a flawed but evocative time capsule of ’90s middle-age anxiety.
The director of the Sundance favorite discusses her coming-of-age tale Hala.
As his WWI war epic 1917 comes out in time for the holidays, we spend December looking back on the eclectic modes of Sam Mendes.
Apple TV+’s new drama sends Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul on a racially-charged search for justice.
Tom Harper’s ascent to the stratosphere has moments of tension, but they’re undercut by a choppy narrative and a shallow approach to its true story.
One writer’s childhood bond with his best friend was sealed by a fateful late-night screening of Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Melina Matsoukas’ vivid debut makes a Bonnie & Clyde story out of the dangers of being black in America.
Alex Ross Perry’s punk-rock elegy isn’t just a bittersweet portrait of rock stardom, it’s a beautiful model of the long, hard road to sobriety.
Tom Hanks fills the loafers of childhood’s kindest saint in Marielle Heller’s case study of Mr. Rogers’ impact.
Trey Edward Shults trots out every filmmaking trick in the book to spruce up an overly-novelistic family drama.
Todd Haynes steps outside of his wheelhouse with a well-intentioned, but messy piece of narrative journalism.
Your dad’s favorite racing movie races to a $31.5 million opening weekend.
Watchmen explores the cyclical nature of trauma in an episode that serves as a haunting showcase for Tim Blake Nelson.
Disney+’s live-action Star Wars series shakes off its fan-film cobwebs and shows glimmers of space Western intrigue.
Elizabeth Banks revives the girl-power action franchise with new blood and a solid if formulaic actioner.
Legacy and memory rise to the forefront of an intriguing Watchmen concerned even more directly with the shadows of the past.
