Smutty, silly, and wholly delightful, ‘Wicker’ is a delightful little village romp that weaves a hard-bodied romantasy out of a dark fable about devotion and love. Alexander Skarsgård’s astonishing practical-suit performance and Olivia Colman’s offputting…
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Nathan Fielder's 'You Can See Everything' is the best-reviewed film in years. What would it take to become the first documentary to win Best Picture?
Director Brian Duffield has filmed the unfilmable, making sperm whale interiors into a genuine feat of claustrophobic craft. ‘Whalefall’ moves well, pains and crunches impressively, and gives Austin…
Fielder and Oppenheim spend 174 minutes pointing every available instrument at Elizabeth Holmes, then at the people around her, then at the documentary itself, and arrive at less…
It’s possible for two things to be true at once. One: rankings are largely arbitrary and reductive, fodder for clicks and debate, and so steeped in the subjectivity of a particular moment that they’re easy to dismiss as anything resembling objective truth. Two: they get a lot of clicks, I like reading them, and I...
Aaron Sorkin fails to inject 'The Social Reckoning' with anything resembling craftsmanship in this preachy, if righteously angry, followup to the brilliant…
The art of cinema is being systematically devalued and reduced to its lowest common denominator. Anyways, here’s what’s streaming now!
Powered by Will Brill’s fearless performance and the audacious pairing of director Giselle Bonilla and writer Alexander Heller, 'The Musical' emerges as…
'The Weight' is an effective survival Dad movie, buoyed by intoxicating production design and a killer Ethan Hawke man-on-a-mission performance.
Michael Sarnoski’s 'The Death of Robin Hood' strips the folk hero of his mythic nobility, transforming the outlaw legend into a bruising…
An absolutely ripping sci-fi actioner that outclasses Hollywood by nearly every measure, ‘Hope’ is 156 minutes of sustained escalation that just keeps…
Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' only occasionally recaptures the sense of awe that made him one of science fiction's defining filmmakers, but those…
A pulpy, bloody grindhouse throwback to when movies existed to make you feel something for 90 minutes and then let you get…
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Before we’d exchanged more than a few words, Gregg Araki was already laughing. He spotted the blue “HO LIFE OR NO LIFE” hat I’d chosen for the interview and asked whether I had worn it specifically for him. “Of course,” I told him. Given the nature of I Want Your Sex, it felt appropriate. I...
When The Invite premiered at Sundance earlier this year, it landed as one of the festival’s sharpest surprises: a sex comedy with a soul, powered by four actors all operating at full voltage. (I called it an A-grade “zesty swinger comedy that’s equally hilarious and therapeutic” in my review out of the fest.) What’s most...
When I told John Magaro I’d watched Omaha twice and was still recovering, he laughed and apologized. It’s a tough movie, but one that’s nevertheless rewarding and Magaro’s powerful, largely wordless turn powers the film confidently. Cole Webley’s debut feature, written by Robert Machoian, is a road trip movie with a dark destination, a slow-burn...
