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...

Michael Mann’s career has been filled with stylish, exciting dives into gender roles and the dangers of ambition; maybe that’s why this...

Despite the numbing wave of biopics we’ve seen recently, I still can’t help but find them kind of fascinating. It’s so interesting to see...

I was particularly excited to see Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure, because (even though I never mention...

Just a few weeks ago, protests calling for an end to the occupation of Palestine broke out all over the US. Shopping malls were shut...

Hayao Miyazaki’s newest movie is the stuff of dreams. Billed in English as The Boy and the Heron, this fantasy epic remained in obscurity...

Cormac McCarthy once wrote that God “speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things;” and while watching Hlynur Pálmason’s newest film,...

Almost seven decades have passed since Ishirō Honda’s radioactive dinosaur first graced screens across the world. Since then, it’s had...

Cinema has always been a medium of ghosts. Each second that flicks by onscreen is a time capsule confronting us with who we were, making...

Nicki Micheaux’s latest offering sets us barely a year after the Rodney King uprising sparked nationwide conversations about police...