The film is a haunting portrait of a distinctly American psyche.
The film suggests that there’s a way to reconcile oneself with the ghosts of cinema past.
Rachel Lambert’s film is an imperfect but affecting portrait of social isolation.
The film could aim with a bit more precision at the price of its characters’ evident comfort.
The film has a rather perfunctory feel, as if it were unwilling to go all in on its ludicrous concept.
By stripping the gameplay out of a game that’s fleshed out by televisual tropes, the series ends up as mostly just the latter.
Operation Fortune proceeds as a rote run-through of stock spy-film scenarios.
This is a statement film inextricably tied to discourse in and around fourth-wave feminism.
Mike White’s series remains TV’s most intriguing and precise murder mystery-cum-social satire.
If courtroom dramas are usually about taking a stand, Saint Omer shows us that the most impactful truths often go unspoken.
Shaunak Sen’s documentary is both otherworldly and humanizing, as if it were bridging a gap between different forms of existence.
Deftly constructed and utterly heartbreaking, Aftersun announces Charlotte Wells as an eminent storyteller of prodigious powers.
The film’s storytelling is deceptively straightforward, rooted in realistic dialogue and Hansen-Løve’s light touch as a visual stylist.
In the end, Fernando León de Aranoa’s film suggests that there may not be a lot of daylight between a good boss and a true villain.
Julius Avery’s film, intentionally or not, exposes the political subtext of all other superhero movies.
Alex Pritz’s documentary provides an affecting look at Indigenous lives at the frontline of deforestation in the Amazon.
Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives gets lost in a story that’s already been told.
One of the best and most inventive rom-coms in recent years gets a beautiful transfer from the Criterion Collection.
The Tsugua Diaries is something like Memento for an age of isolation and listlessness.
Much of what the series offers can’t help but come off as clever franchise strategizing.