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The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth continues filming even as its writer brags about staging a new play next year.
Despite some decent elements, Americana doesn't quite hold up.
RoboCop and The Hills Have Eyes (Cinema Survey 30).
Zach Cregger takes zero risks and holds the audience's hand throughout Weapons.
Highest 2 Lowest is a surprisingly slack disappointment from Spike Lee.
High Noon, The Fly, and Picnic at Hanging Rock (Cinema Survey 27).
Relay is a fine, small film, but it can only do so much and reach so many people.
Nobody 2 is a decent sequel that doesn't live up to its potential.
The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth don’t mean you no harm. Mood
Eddington shows that point-for-point political squabbling is useless as long as underlying machinations in the American political system remain un-addressed.
Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018) is a well-oiled machine of a film that nevertheless lasts too long, with a central hero-villain conflict that has no real chemistry.
Weapons is another drama smuggled into theaters as horror.
Too much plot, too many metaphors.
How Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One relates to The Perils of Pauline (1914) and AI.
Before there was Psycho, there was the Christo-fascist slasher.
A24's new satirical thriller had an underwhelming response at the Sundance Film Festival, but Opus is more interesting than credited.
Looking into the legacy created by Brian De Palma with the first of many Mission: Impossible films.
The new Fantastic Four movie has no MCU stink about it.
Its remake 50 years later, A Bigger Splash, fiddles too much with a winning formula and gets lost.
The 2006 follow-up in the Mission: Impossible franchise is not very smart, lacks thematic ideas, and never takes flight.
Superman is silly again, and I guess I’m happy for the ADHD kids.
The editor and cinematographer talk about camerea movement, Robert Bresson, and more in this 93-minute conversation.
The actor recalls missing an opportunity to play Nick Nightingale in Kubrick's final film, a role that eventually went to Todd Field.
The filmmaker talks to Roger and James Deakins about reshoots, directing Out of Sight, and more in this new interview.
The director talks about Megalopolis, the future of cinema, and more in this October 2024 interview.
The filmmaker talks to Kevin McCarthy about aspect ratios, sound design, favorite shots, and more.
The French master director talks about how her films "don't exist" because of patchy distribution and more in this 2011 interview.
The Eddington director talks about his new film, conspiracy theories, artificial intelligence, and more in this new interview.
A compilation of behind the scenes footage from the sets of Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Social Network, and more.
The director of Eddington talks to Hader about A Clockwork Orange, genre films, and finding the humor in Hereditary.