Casey Affleck’s ‘Company’ Is Venice’s Most Frustrating Film
Photo: Image Nation Studios Casey Affleck’s third directorial outing, Company, begins and ends with an evocation of the…
‘Flesh Impact’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Salutes Marilyn Monroe
This is a notable year for short films at the Venice Film Festival, with Saoirse Ronan making her…
Julianne Moore’s Performance in ‘The Debut’ Is an All-Timer
Julianne Moore effectively gives three different performances in Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut, though it’s all the same character,…
Review: ‘The Dog Stars’ and Ridley Scott’s Broken Worlds
Photo: Fabio Lovino/20th Century Studios/Everett Collection We humans fixate a lot, especially nowadays, on our own eradication. There…
Movie review: A new red door opens for ‘Insidious’ horror franchise – ABS-CBN
Movie review: A new red door opens for ‘Insidious’ horror franchise ABS-CBNInsidious: Out of the Further swaps sadness for…
Review: Claire Denis’s ‘The Fence,’ on AMC+ With Matt Dillon
“I prefer the softness of the shadows.” These words are uttered early on in Claire Denis’s The Fence…
‘Wild Inside’ Is a Funny, Moving Film About Flaco the Owl
Penny Lane’s film about the owl that captured New York’s imagination is a potrait of what the bird’s…
In Angelina Jolie’s Couture, the Metatextual Is the Star
Photo: Pathe Films/Courtesy Everett Collection In the late 1960s, the luxury mink-fur brand Blackglama started an ad campaign…
‘The Black Ball’ Review: Sometimes Sublime, Sometimes Clumsy
The second feature from the Javis set Cannes aflame, but will it play the same way once it’s…
Gore, Action, and Marital Strife
Another entry in our recent deluge of ironic gorefests, Over Your Dead Body doesn’t really give us anything…
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Should’ve Stayed in Its Crypt
A parent’s love is supposed to be boundless and unconditional, but you have to snicker the first time…
Tom Morello Spreads the Gospel of Judas Priest in Berlin
Photo: Paul Natkin via Cache Agency Apologies, but I have to start this one with a personal anecdote.…