Nope: Don’t Look Up
In the remote California desert, a horse rancher ventures out to his stable late at night to find out why the lights and sprinklers...
Marcel: Shelter in Place
It’s funny — a few days ago I caught up with The House on Netflix and greatly admired the skill and imagination of that...
Deer King: Black Plague
Masashi Andō did not mean to make a movie about the COVID pandemic when he started work on The Deer King. The story, after...
Where the Crawdads Sing: Marsh Murder
I’ve got good news for all you fans of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing: It’s exactly the movie you’re looking for. The big-screen...
Korean Killer
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? By all rights, Parasite’s Oscar win for Best Picture should have started a flood of Korean movies into...
Thor for Four
Taika Waititi won an Oscar for his script for Jojo Rabbit, and that sort of acclaim can be death for a comedy writer —...
White Raven: Ukrainian Sniper
For all you fellow film freaks out there, maybe the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made you curious about what sort of movies they’ve...
Elvis: 3000 Miles From Graceland
At this point, what is left to say about Elvis Presley? The man’s life and musical career have been exhaustively mined by his descendants,...
Brian and Charles: I Made a Friend
We’ve been deluged with found-footage horror films ever since The Blair Witch Project, but mockumentary comedies have been largely neglected ever since Christopher Guest...
Crimes of the Future: The First Cut Is the Deepest
We have the David Cronenberg of old back in Crimes of the Future. The Canadian maestro of mutilated flesh made his name with body...