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- Movies, Movie Review Mar 8, 2019
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Captain Marvel shows that all female-led superhero movies needed was good writing, acting, and direction
Carol Danvers isn’t “Just a Girl”: she’s a tough, multifaceted woman.
- Movies, Movie Review Mar 1, 2019
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Starring a cast of nonactors, Capernaum examines the lives of refugees in a Beirut slum
Nadine Labaki’s drama is almost too much realism to bear.
- Movies, Movie Review Feb 22, 2019
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The Wild Pear Tree shows a young Turk coming of age and getting his comeuppance
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest feature is a deep psychological portrait set against an expansive landscape.
- Movies, Movie Review Feb 15, 2019
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Based on the life of painter Gerhard Richter, Never Look Away is a little too pretty
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s latest could use a little more ugly truth.
- Movies, Movie Review Feb 15, 2019
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With Everybody Knows, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi attempts to make a Spanish movie
In reaching for the universal, he ends up with the generic.
- Movies, Movie Review Feb 8, 2019
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The Oscar-nominated animated and live-action shorts are full of disconnections
Can the characters bridge the divides, or will they let the connections die?
- Movies, Movie Feature Feb 7, 2019
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The Image Book takes shape as you watch it
Jean-Luc Godard’s latest is a montage of images with the weight of an epic poem.
- Movies, Movie Review Feb 7, 2019
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The American remake of Miss Bala is an exploitation picture veiled as women's revenge flick
It's a 180-degree turn from the original, an outcry against the border drug wars.
- Movies, Movie Review Feb 1, 2019
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Gavagai is hard to explain, but thanks to a combination of poetry and camerawork, easy to feel
Rob Tregenza’s latest feature tells its story in 22 ambitious shots.
- Movies, Movie Review Jan 18, 2019
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Cold War chronicles a passionate affair that blazes across the Iron Curtain
Pawel Pawlikowski's follow-up to Ida celebrates individualism and unfettered emotion.
- Movies, Movie Review Jan 18, 2019
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Life & Nothing More takes a long, hard look at a working-class woman and her son
Antonio Méndez Esparza's unscripted docudrama shows people who are just trying to get by.
- Movies, Movie Review Jan 18, 2019
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The House That Jack Built is Lars von Trier’s way of showing how much he loves women
He just has a funny way of showing it.
- Movies, Flopcorn Jan 16, 2019
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Money Talks is the Friday sequel we all deserved
Now we know what really happened to Smokey: he befriended Charlie Sheen to make a bad buddy movie.
- Movies, Movie Review Jan 15, 2019
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Bird Box recklessly villainizes mental illness and suicide
It squanders an opportunity for thoughtful commentary on trauma and survival.
- Movies, Movie Review Jan 9, 2019
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The Owl’s Legacy is the best symposium on ancient Greece you’ll ever sit in on
Chris Marker’s multipart essay film screens all month at the Siskel Film Center.
- Movies, Movie Review Dec 26, 2018
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In Cam, the real horror is whorephobia
Written by a former camgirl, the new Netflix film is a worthy addition to a great year for women in horror.
- Movies, Movie Review Dec 24, 2018
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Vice, Adam McKay's gonzo anti-biopic of Dick Cheney, earns our attention
The story itself is less revealing than the telling.
- Movies, Movie Review Dec 21, 2018
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Vox Lux and The Mule present two very different responses to our nation’s ills
While one finds only despair, the other argues that we’re still capable of kindness, despite the terrible things we do.
- Movies, Movie Feature Dec 21, 2018
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Ben Sachs picks the top ten—well, 13—movies of 2018
A mix of the new, the old, and new work by the old
- Movies, Movie Review Dec 14, 2018
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In Shoplifters, the sharpest insights are blurred by sentimentality
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film about an impoverished makeshift family won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
- Movies, Movie Review Dec 13, 2018
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This year’s Animation Show of Shows amuses more than astonishes
The 15 international selections use a variety of forms, from pencil to clay animation.
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 30, 2018
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Lee Chang-dong’s Burning demonstrates the perils of trying to adapt Haruki Murakami to the screen
The new Korean film feels like a stalemate between two master storytellers.
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 30, 2018
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The Favourite suggests the path to power in the early 18th century British royal household went right through the bedchamber
Is the monarch a queen or a pawn?
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 20, 2018
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Dovlatov and Outlaw King take pains to present the past as their audiences would prefer to see it
Two new Netflix releases show remarkable lapses in their directors’ good sense.
- Movies, Movie Review Nov 16, 2018
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The heist film Museo gives Alonso Ruizpalacios a showcase for his best camera tricks
Even after the story runs out, it’s still a joy to watch.