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.…
Sandra Huller Gets Her Greatest Role Yet
Photo: Schubert/ROW Pictures/Walker+Worm Film/Gerald Kerkletz In Markus Schleinzer’s Rose, the lead character, played by the mesmerizing Sandra Hüller…
How Do You Talk About a Movie Like This?
Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute “Brains are pretty delicate things.” Someone says this early on in Josephine, and…
Charlie XCX Film Is Pure Brand Management
The Charlie XCX film is neither funny enough to be a mockumentary nor real enough to be a…