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Nov 17, 2025
The title character of Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly is a movie star who looks and acts an awful lot like George Clooney. He’s got the crinkly eyes, the silver-fox coif, the...
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Nov 11, 2025
The Creature abides. Mary Shelley’s seminal Modern Gothic was published in 1818: a sci-fi gloss on Paradise Lost seasoned with the gore of several European wars. The first...
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Oct 24, 2025
That’s why they call him the Boss: In Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, our man Bruce—played by a suitably coiffed and toned Jeremy Allen White,...
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Oct 20, 2025
The dessert tart proffered at a chic faculty party in After the Hunt isn’t simply scrumptious-looking. It’s decadent: rich, flaky, and sophisticated, a conversation piece...
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Oct 3, 2025
As the former UFC and Pride combatant Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, Dwayne Johnson is a walking contradiction: He’s seriously bulked up yet somehow...
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Sep 25, 2025
The heroes of One Battle After Another are revolutionaries who communicate in code. Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio), though, has been out of the game so long that he’s...
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Sep 17, 2025
It’s a fine line between making something look easy and being on cruise control. If Robert Redford was underrated as an actor, it’s probably because his work never...
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Sep 12, 2025
Two household-name Brit-rock stalwarts, both alike in indignity, in 2025, where we lay our scene. Grudges don’t get more ancient—nor bandmates more...
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Sep 5, 2025
Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven is a movie filled with men whose ornery, world-beating reputations precede them. One of these is the braggadocious gunslinger English Bob, a...
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Aug 27, 2025
“When you smoke, you think,” said Philip Seymour Hoffman in a 2002 interview with The Believer. “It’s a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.”
I...
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Aug 11, 2025
The phrase “What the fuck?” is repeated often enough in Zach Cregger’s Weapons that it takes on the resonance of a mantra or maybe a motto—a veritable mission...
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Aug 4, 2025
“Criticism,” wrote Roger Ebert in 1988, “quails in the face of The Naked Gun.”
This was not a complaint; Ebert adored The Naked Gun, which he considered an...
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Jul 23, 2025
There is nothing new under the sun, but Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud hovers somewhere in the vicinity. The Japanese master’s latest is a malevolent, cumulonimbus shapeshifter...
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Jul 22, 2025
“Your Being Manipulated!” a partisan bumper sticker reads in Eddington. The hapless misuse of a possessive adjective suggests that the candidate being advertised in red,...
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Jul 17, 2025
Last summer, the big story of my halfway-mark honor roll was horror, elevated and otherwise: movies anxiously mapping our public and private twilight zones. Things are still...
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Jul 14, 2025
Back in 2010, James Gunn made his sophomore feature film, Super, a cheap, surprisingly nasty little movie about a socially inept short-order cook who cosplays as a violent...
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Jun 30, 2025
In F1: The Movie, Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a wizened former Grand Prix prodigy wandering the world in search of freelance wheelman gigs. Like a lot of guys his age, Sonny’s...
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Jun 23, 2025
“There’s no discharge in the war,” observes the narrator of Rudyard Kipling’s 1915 poem “Boots,” about the drudgery and the terror of a life spent...
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Jun 4, 2025
It’s been 50 years since Jaws simultaneously invented and perfected the concept of the modern summer blockbuster. No less than King Kong or the monolith in 2001, the marauding...
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Jun 3, 2025
For what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? For Zsa-zsa Korda, the self-styled magnate at the center of Wes Anderson’s new...
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May 23, 2025
“You need to stay off the internet,” Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) says midway through beating the crap out of a red-pilled henchman. Seems the poor guy has watched one too...
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Apr 28, 2025
Manuela Lazic: Back in 2004, they didn’t yet know that hit men don’t exist. Nevertheless, Michael Mann’s Collateral has been influential, I think specifically so...
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Apr 21, 2025
Talking to LeBron James recently in Interview magazine, Ryan Coogler used a culinary metaphor: “I want people walking out of the theater and thinking, ‘Man, I had a full...
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Mar 7, 2025
There are two Robert Pattinsons in Mickey 17—one sweet and dopey, one sullen and sharp, each the other’s distorted mirror image. They’re both clones hatched as part...
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Mar 6, 2025
When Quentin Tarantino strode onstage last night at the Academy Awards ceremony to hand out best director, it was an indicator of two things. The first was that last year’s...
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Feb 25, 2025
In 1968, The New York Times dismissed Night of the Living Dead as a revolting little item cobbled together by “some people in Pittsburgh.” The review was myopic; the film...
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Feb 20, 2025
“I should have just taken the serum,” says Sam Wilson in Captain America: Brave New World. His refusal to turn himself into a super-soldier like his predecessor, Steve...
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Jan 13, 2025
The first thing Gerard Butler’s Big Nick O’Brien does after touching down in France early on in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is sample the local cuisine. “I’ll...
Nov 17, 2025The title character of Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly is a movie star who looks and acts an awful lot like George Clooney. He’s got the crinkly eyes, the silver-fox coif, the...
Nov 11, 2025The Creature abides. Mary Shelley’s seminal Modern Gothic was published in 1818: a sci-fi gloss on Paradise Lost seasoned with the gore of several European wars. The first...
Oct 24, 2025That’s why they call him the Boss: In Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, our man Bruce—played by a suitably coiffed and toned Jeremy Allen White,...
Oct 20, 2025The dessert tart proffered at a chic faculty party in After the Hunt isn’t simply scrumptious-looking. It’s decadent: rich, flaky, and sophisticated, a conversation piece...
Oct 3, 2025As the former UFC and Pride combatant Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, Dwayne Johnson is a walking contradiction: He’s seriously bulked up yet somehow...
Sep 25, 2025The heroes of One Battle After Another are revolutionaries who communicate in code. Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio), though, has been out of the game so long that he’s...
Sep 17, 2025It’s a fine line between making something look easy and being on cruise control. If Robert Redford was underrated as an actor, it’s probably because his work never...
Sep 12, 2025Two household-name Brit-rock stalwarts, both alike in indignity, in 2025, where we lay our scene. Grudges don’t get more ancient—nor bandmates more...
Sep 5, 2025Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven is a movie filled with men whose ornery, world-beating reputations precede them. One of these is the braggadocious gunslinger English Bob, a...
Aug 27, 2025“When you smoke, you think,” said Philip Seymour Hoffman in a 2002 interview with The Believer. “It’s a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.” I...
Aug 11, 2025The phrase “What the fuck?” is repeated often enough in Zach Cregger’s Weapons that it takes on the resonance of a mantra or maybe a motto—a veritable mission...
Aug 4, 2025“Criticism,” wrote Roger Ebert in 1988, “quails in the face of The Naked Gun.” This was not a complaint; Ebert adored The Naked Gun, which he considered an...
Jul 23, 2025There is nothing new under the sun, but Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud hovers somewhere in the vicinity. The Japanese master’s latest is a malevolent, cumulonimbus shapeshifter...
Jul 22, 2025“Your Being Manipulated!” a partisan bumper sticker reads in Eddington. The hapless misuse of a possessive adjective suggests that the candidate being advertised in red,...
Jul 17, 2025Last summer, the big story of my halfway-mark honor roll was horror, elevated and otherwise: movies anxiously mapping our public and private twilight zones. Things are still...
Jul 14, 2025Back in 2010, James Gunn made his sophomore feature film, Super, a cheap, surprisingly nasty little movie about a socially inept short-order cook who cosplays as a violent...
Jun 30, 2025In F1: The Movie, Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a wizened former Grand Prix prodigy wandering the world in search of freelance wheelman gigs. Like a lot of guys his age, Sonny’s...
Jun 23, 2025“There’s no discharge in the war,” observes the narrator of Rudyard Kipling’s 1915 poem “Boots,” about the drudgery and the terror of a life spent...
Jun 4, 2025It’s been 50 years since Jaws simultaneously invented and perfected the concept of the modern summer blockbuster. No less than King Kong or the monolith in 2001, the marauding...
Jun 3, 2025For what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? For Zsa-zsa Korda, the self-styled magnate at the center of Wes Anderson’s new...
May 23, 2025“You need to stay off the internet,” Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) says midway through beating the crap out of a red-pilled henchman. Seems the poor guy has watched one too...
Apr 28, 2025Manuela Lazic: Back in 2004, they didn’t yet know that hit men don’t exist. Nevertheless, Michael Mann’s Collateral has been influential, I think specifically so...
Apr 21, 2025Talking to LeBron James recently in Interview magazine, Ryan Coogler used a culinary metaphor: “I want people walking out of the theater and thinking, ‘Man, I had a full...
Mar 7, 2025There are two Robert Pattinsons in Mickey 17—one sweet and dopey, one sullen and sharp, each the other’s distorted mirror image. They’re both clones hatched as part...
Mar 6, 2025When Quentin Tarantino strode onstage last night at the Academy Awards ceremony to hand out best director, it was an indicator of two things. The first was that last year’s...
Feb 25, 2025In 1968, The New York Times dismissed Night of the Living Dead as a revolting little item cobbled together by “some people in Pittsburgh.” The review was myopic; the film...
Feb 20, 2025“I should have just taken the serum,” says Sam Wilson in Captain America: Brave New World. His refusal to turn himself into a super-soldier like his predecessor, Steve...
Jan 13, 2025The first thing Gerard Butler’s Big Nick O’Brien does after touching down in France early on in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is sample the local cuisine. “I’ll...