The film that made the Wachowskis a household name balanced dazzling special effects with a profound message about self-discovery.
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I sit down with two subjects from the upcoming AIDS documentary 5B to talk about Pride and the plague years.
Jill Magid’s documentary delves into messy conversations about the link between art and legacy, becoming a short but […]
Pixar’s fourth trip into the toybox opens up fascinating existential questions while maintaining its delightful core of childlike whimsy.
Sam Jackson returns with two more generations of Shafts in a slick actioner let down by milquetoast jabs at millennials.
Not even the cosmic star power of Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson can stop this tired, paint-by-numbers reboot.
Jack Quaid and Maya Erskine break long-standing rom-com modes in this refreshing, personable love story.
The Wachowskis’ 1996 directorial debut feels like a formative text for the filmmakers, a slinky crime caper that’s also unabashedly queer.
This indie doc about modern slave labor in the East Asian fishing industry is well-intentioned but pulls its punches when they’re most needed.
Before they made their directorial debut, Lana and Lilly Wachowski wrote the Stallone-Banderas actioner Assassins, a far cry from their future work.
Denys Arcand’s droll French caper comedy leans a little too hard on cliche and creaky anti-capitalist screeds.
This slow-burn dystopian sci-fi thriller questions the motives & limits of maternal love.
The sequel to the popular 2016 film has its characters learning new tricks, but its overabundance of plot and characters neuter its message.
The pioneering superhero franchise gets its last hurrah in the form of a messy, somber swan song.
America’s first celebrity fashion designer gets the documentary treatment in an insightful treatment that still occasionally gets in its own way.
Mindy Kaling’s screenwriting debut offers a shaggy but sincere look at the male-dominated world of talk shows. If […]
Five years after its box office failure, a look back at what went wrong for Cruise’s ambitious sci-fi action film and how the narrative has changed.
Ron Howard returns to accessible but fluffy music docs with this hagiography of the iconic opera tenor.
