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Dec 11, 2025
The film-industry panic sparked by the news of Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. has been immediate and intense, and in the days immediately after, it was hard to...
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Oct 24, 2025
Bio-pics come with a built-in tension concerning point of view. Filmmakers generally undertake such projects out of admiration, and, as a result, many veer quickly from enthusiasm to...
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Oct 10, 2025
A first viewing of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” mainly sets up the pleasure of seeing it again. The movie, which runs two hours and forty-one...
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Oct 1, 2025
Only two kinds of actors are bad: those who can’t be themselves and those who you wish wouldn’t be. All the rest are likely to shine in movies by good directors, and most...
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Sep 15, 2025
Even benevolent producers who give directors total freedom to make films can’t quite do so, by dint of the fact that they’re giving it; the imbalance of power is built...
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Sep 11, 2025
A filmmaker who wanted to make a politically contentious movie couldn’t do much better than to set it in mid-2020, when the United States, under the covid-19 lockdown and...
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Sep 3, 2025
From the start of Darren Aronofsky’s new film, “Caught Stealing,” it’s apparent that it hits the sweet spot of his cinematic artistry—the right scale,...
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Jul 24, 2025
Clint Eastwood is as impersonal a personal filmmaker as modern Hollywood has to offer. What makes his movies personal is more their ideas, their attitudes, their tones than anything...
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Jul 11, 2025
The world may be going to hell, but the writer and director James Gunn has graced it with a sunshine “Superman.” The most recent installments in the franchise—Zack...
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Jun 30, 2025
With “M3GAN 2.0,” the franchising of the 2022 sci-fi-horror mashup “M3GAN” suffers from sequelitis. At least it shows its symptoms clearly: inflammation and...
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May 30, 2025
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about its story, which involves a wealthy...
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Apr 21, 2025
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bloodstream, along comes a new horde of vampires, in Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” to taint it with yet another...
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Apr 11, 2025
I’ve never played Minecraft in my life—but then I’m not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly Mormon cinematic universe of Jared Hess,...
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Jan 15, 2025
Biographies of great artists are of inherent interest, but in the case of Terrence Malick, one of the greatest living filmmakers, there’s an extra fascination because of the...
Dec 11, 2025The film-industry panic sparked by the news of Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. has been immediate and intense, and in the days immediately after, it was hard to...
Oct 24, 2025Bio-pics come with a built-in tension concerning point of view. Filmmakers generally undertake such projects out of admiration, and, as a result, many veer quickly from enthusiasm to...
Oct 10, 2025A first viewing of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” mainly sets up the pleasure of seeing it again. The movie, which runs two hours and forty-one...
Oct 1, 2025Only two kinds of actors are bad: those who can’t be themselves and those who you wish wouldn’t be. All the rest are likely to shine in movies by good directors, and most...
Sep 15, 2025Even benevolent producers who give directors total freedom to make films can’t quite do so, by dint of the fact that they’re giving it; the imbalance of power is built...
Sep 11, 2025A filmmaker who wanted to make a politically contentious movie couldn’t do much better than to set it in mid-2020, when the United States, under the covid-19 lockdown and...
Sep 3, 2025From the start of Darren Aronofsky’s new film, “Caught Stealing,” it’s apparent that it hits the sweet spot of his cinematic artistry—the right scale,...
Jul 24, 2025Clint Eastwood is as impersonal a personal filmmaker as modern Hollywood has to offer. What makes his movies personal is more their ideas, their attitudes, their tones than anything...
Jul 11, 2025The world may be going to hell, but the writer and director James Gunn has graced it with a sunshine “Superman.” The most recent installments in the franchise—Zack...
Jun 30, 2025With “M3GAN 2.0,” the franchising of the 2022 sci-fi-horror mashup “M3GAN” suffers from sequelitis. At least it shows its symptoms clearly: inflammation and...
May 30, 2025Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about its story, which involves a wealthy...
Apr 21, 2025Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bloodstream, along comes a new horde of vampires, in Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” to taint it with yet another...
Apr 11, 2025I’ve never played Minecraft in my life—but then I’m not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly Mormon cinematic universe of Jared Hess,...
Jan 15, 2025Biographies of great artists are of inherent interest, but in the case of Terrence Malick, one of the greatest living filmmakers, there’s an extra fascination because of the...