Coppola: On the Rocks (2020)
Sofia Coppola’s latest film, On the Rocks, is one of the coolest and most elegant in her entire career. She’s always been drawn to the sweet spot between New Wave languor [...]
October 2020
Finley: Bad Education (2019)
Written by Mike Makowsky and directed by Cory Finley, Bad Education is a dramatization of the largest embezzlement in American public school history – the Roslyn school [...]
Sorkin: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Aaron Sorkin’s latest film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, focuses on the prosecution of Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp), Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron [...]
Borte: Unhinged (2020)
Unhinged was one of the last films to make it to cinemas before lockdown, and it focuses on an experience that must feel especially uncanny for Americans in lockdown – peak [...]
Franz & Fiala: The Lodge (2019)
The Lodge unfolds as an exhaustion of two tropes that have come to define films about disenfranchised whiteness over the last few years – vast wintry landscapes, and a [...]
Popplewell: American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)
Family annihilators, or familicide perpetrators, are one of the last frontiers of true crime literature and television. Their motivations are often obtuse, they frequently [...]
Michell: Notting Hill (1999)
No film captures celebrity allure as it stood in the 1990s, at the end of the first cinematic century, quite like Notting Hill. For one thing, this was arguably the pinnacle [...]
Faxon & Rash: Downhill (2020)
One of the bleaker mainstream releases of 2020, Downhill is an American adaptation of Force Majeure, Ruben Ostlund’s breakthrough film of 2014, which details the crisis [...]
Dobkin: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
The enjoyably – extravagantly – titled Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is just what I needed during the pandemic, and a rarity in contemporary cinema – [...]
Ephron: You’ve Got Mail (1998)
No social media experience has ever felt quite so exciting to me as the earliest days of email. Before email, the internet felt like a largely arcane sidebar in my everyday [...]