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
CIFF 2023: Saltburn leaves a bitter taste in the mouth
Emerald Fennell’s followup to Promising Young Woman is a hollow dramedy that wastes solid performances from Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, and others. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch With her first film, Promising Young Woman, writer-director Emerald Fennell took a storyline that was essentially a cloddish-but-glossy retread of such female-driven revenge sagas as Ms .45 and ... CIFF 2023: Saltburn leaves a bitter taste in the mouth
Sundance 2023: Little Richard: I Am Everything, Squaring the Circle, The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Three of the festival’s docs explore critical figures in art and academia—to varying results. These days, celebrity-based documentaries, especially the ones that eventually find a place in the Sundance lineup, tend to fall into one of two categories—they either serve as cinematic victory laps for proven successes, or they work as reclamation projects serving to ... Sundance 2023: Little Richard: I Am Everything, Squaring the Circle, The Disappearance of Shere Hite