Our exploration of black women directors continues with a look at Gina Prince-Bythewood’s sensitive, layered romantic drama.
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Adrianne Palicki pulls double duty in an Ed-Kelly episode that explores what could have been, and what might still be.
Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke returns to long-form storytelling with this feature-length tale of the twisted romance between a gangster and his moll.
While Keira Knightley and cast give off some elegant looks, this post-WWII costume drama floats passively along the surface of its subject.
The Orville coasts through a Gordon-heavy episode that sees him falling in love with the simulated recreation of a 21st-century woman (Leighton Meester).
Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart serve up surface-level schmaltz in this treacly disabilities drama.
Netflix’s sex-positive teen dramedy offers up raunch and affection in equal measure.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest is a droll, hilarious dramedy about the challenges of female power and competition, with three […]
The Coen brothers return to the Old West for a darkly comic anthology of six stories of doomed […]
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The 36th annual LGBTQ+ film fest starts up this week in Chicago, and we talk about some of […]
Netflix updates Cyrano de Bergerac for the social media era in this clunky teen rom-com, which distastefully hinges […]
Mateo Gil’s Spanish rom-com mockumentary tumbles toward entropy with beautiful visuals, but a scattered story and weak protagonist. […]
While trying to chase both sentimentality and laughs, Ken Marino’s ensemble canine comedy ends up barking up the […]
Despite a charismatic performance by Vincent Cassel, this meditative biopic of the French painter fails to match the […]
Hausu’s Nobuhiko Obayashi starts wrapping up his 60-year career in filmmaking with a deeply weird, compellingly stream-of-consciousness wartime […]
Dominic Cooke’s sumptuous adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel tells the tale of a marriage doomed from the […]