Asteroid City feels very much of a piece with The French Dispatch, to the extent that the two films often play like different facets of the same shared universe. As with The [...]

The Holdovers is a wonderful portrait of teaching, the most generous-spirited film of Alexander Payne’s career and rivals Sideways as the best film of his career too. In [...]

It’s hard to provide a plot summary of Reptile that does it justice or that feels commensurate to the extraordinary sense of emergence, complexity and ambivalence that [...]

The third film in The Equalizer series begins with a sequence that harkens back to the ceremonial ultra-violence of the first two instalments. Without any immediate context, [...]

Showing Up marks Kelly Reichardt’s fourth collaboration with Michelle Williams, who in this instance plays Lizzy, a sculptor who also works as an administrative assistance [...]

Sick is one of the great horror films to come out of the pandemic. Set in April 2020, when 97% of the United States was quarantined, and the death toll had already topped 10 [...]

Now that the millennium has passed into history and even the Mayan prophecies of 2012 are a distant memory, what does the next apocalyptic horizon look like in American [...]

The Killer, David Fincher’s latest film, and his first Netflix film, opens with a profound gesture of negation. In a sustained opening scene, we meet the title character, [...]