Marriage Story is Noah Baumbach’s take on a certain strand of arthouse cinema that presents the decline of a New York romance, and the decline of a New York family, as the [...]

Hard Eight was Paul Thomas Anderson’s first film, and it’s a remarkably fully-formed release, both on its own terms and as a forerunner of the themes and approaches that [...]

My Best Friend’s Wedding is the spiritual sequel to Muriel’s Wedding, and one of the slyest and most irreverent of 90s romantic comedies – effectively a deconstructed [...]

Five years in production, and a whole lifetime in the making, The Irishman may be Martin Scorsese’s greatest film – and certainly feels like his most personal film, as [...]

Almost by definition, cannibal films tend to defy any consistent tone. The prospect of eating another human body is so horrific, and yet so ridiculous, that films about [...]

Hustlers is an adaptation of “The Hustlers at Scores,” a 2015 New York magazine article by Jessica Pressler that exposed a scam orchestrated by a group of high-end New [...]