Mohammad Rasoulof made a big splash at Cannes with this latest offering, having to sneak out of Iran and travel by road for almost a...

Don’t let the most recent wave of hype fool you: Brady Corbet’s newest epic historical drama is what Mao would call a paper tiger. It may...

One of the hardest parts about aging is thinking of everything you could have done, everything you should have done. But chasing the...

After more than three and a half decades, Tim Burton has finally provided audiences with a follow-up to his iconic 1988 comedy-horror....

The Olympics has come and gone, but it did leave me thinking about my favorite sports movies. This list is obviously not exhaustive, nor...

When I first heard about another addition to the Alien franchise, I was skeptical to say the least. We live in the era of reboots and...

From the grindhouse style of X (2022) to the technicolor nightmare that was Pearl (2022), it’s clear Ti West’s X trilogy has been a fun,...

Less than half a year after winning four Oscars for Poor Things (a movie that I hated), Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are back. This...

Erica Tremblay’s feature directorial debut is one of those incredible movies that manages to walk the line of several genres, switching...

With new Coppola, Eggers and more on the horizon, it can be easy to forget about all the great movies we’ve gotten this year, which is...

Jane Schoenbrun’s latest psychological horror-drama is one of those movies that’s impossible to describe. ‘Two friends deal with the...

I love romantic comedies; there’s room in my heart for art house masterpieces and popularly entertaining explorations of human...

Screening at Cannes last year before making its way to French theaters, Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s charmingly animated love...

I don’t know if this counts as a hot take, but action films have a bad rap. While it may be easy to dismiss the entire genre as shallow...

Twenty-three years ago, Hayao Miyazaki won an Academy Award for Spirited Away (2001) but didn’t attend the ceremony in protest against...

Denis Villeneuve’s gargantuan follow-up to his 2021 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic has gotten widespread acclaim, and for good...

My favorite movie of 2023 finally hits theaters this weekend! Telling the story of two chefs falling in love after decades spent working...

Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki has always excelled at providing insular gems that still manage to speak to the human condition with...

Right before I started writing this list, Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey17 was delayed indefinitely, which is heartbreaking since it was easily my...

· Films That Got Away I usually include a worst-of list before getting to my favorites, but this year I figured it’d be a better use...