Dream Scenario: Fancies of Our Sleeps
Kristoffer Borgli is a 38-year-old Norwegian director who finds humor in the place where fame and social media meet. His debut feature, the art-world...
Of Monsters and Men
A friend and I recently commiserated that keeping up with the Marvel movies and TV shows is beginning to feel like homework, how if...
Saltburn: Home for the Holidays
After Barry Keoghan won an Oscar nomination last year for his work as the cop’s abused and ill-fated son in The Banshees of Inisherin,...
Napoleon: Cock, Aid
Almost 100 years ago, Abel Gance made a movie about Napoleon Bonaparte. That was more than 100 years after the French conqueror’s death, but...
Hunger Games: Snow Falling on Panem
In the novel The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen describes herself as being small-statured, olive-skinned, and dark-haired, so of course, when they made the movie...
Next Goal Wins: Beach Soccer
Taika Waititi’s latest comedy is Next Goal Wins, and — oh no, it’s my imaginary question-asker from my soccer columns. He must have heard...
Holdovers: I’ll Have a Blue Christmas
One of Roger Ebert’s last film reviews was of Barney’s Version, and I remember how he described Paul Giamatti’s character in the 2011 comedy:...
Anatomy of a Fall: The Red and the White
Over in France, Anatomy of a Fall was already an object of controversy before most people had seen it. That’s because after Justine Triet’s...
Marvels: Tag Team
Let me draw your attention to one thing about The Marvels. It’s the running time, a crisp 100 minutes even including the mid-credit sequence...
Persian Version: She’s So Unusual
A few years ago, I reviewed The Big Sick and pondered the possibility of Muslim filmmakers gaining an identity in Western cinema like other...
