Wolf Man
Andrew Wyatt
Jan 15, 2025
Shrewdly reimagining H.G. Wells’ 1897 “Grotesque Romance” for a contemporary audience, writer-director Leigh Whannell’s 2020 take on The Invisible Man seemed to break the curse
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Better Man
Ethan Tarantella
Jan 10, 2025
Following a year with three major music biopics – Back to Black, Bob Marley: One Love, and A Complete Unknown – it’s challenging to sell
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
Nosferatu
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
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