A Complete Unknown
Cliff Froehlich
Dec 24, 2024
“You’re kind of an asshole, Bob.” A weary Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) makes that barbed, amusingly profane observation to her sometime lover and singing partner
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Andrew Wyatt
Dec 23, 2024
Emerging from the nocturnal gloom of winter like a specter of Death itself, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is one of the most lavishly, relentlessly Gothic horror
A Traveler’s Needs
Kayla McCulloch
Dec 18, 2024
Hong Sang-soo and Isabelle Huppert were supposed to meet for dinner. So begins the story behind A Traveler’s Needs, Hong’s 31st film and third with
Hard Truths
Andrew Wyatt
Dec 16, 2024
British filmmaker Mike Leigh has an unassailable talent for rendering characters who are a lot, as they say. Pansy, the vitriolic protagonist of Leigh’s latest
Maria
Kayla McCulloch
Dec 12, 2024
First things first: Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) is dead. The scene taking place in the adjourning room is a slow-moving and silent one – medics
Nocturnes
Andrew Wyatt
Dec 10, 2024
Nocturnes is a rare and exquisite species of documentary, a meditative ode to the slow, thankless rhythms of scientific fieldwork – and to the untrammeled
Nutcrackers
Kayla McCulloch
Dec 4, 2024
We get the gist of Michael Maxwell (Ben Stiller) before the opening credits of Nutcrackers are even halfway over: This work-obsessed, sports-car-driving, sharply dressed man
No Man’s Sky Persuaded Me to Write My Own Story
Andrew Wyatt
Dec 2, 2024
It took me about three months to realize that I love No Man’s Sky. During this period, I fiddled on-and-off with Hello Games’ mind-bogglingly enormous
Dahomey
Kayla McCulloch
Nov 29, 2024
Mati Diop’s second feature, Dahomey, begins where your stereotypical globe-spanning adventure film ends: an edifice of boxed-up artifacts from a non-extant kingdom, carefully stacked in
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