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Decomposition continues apace in arts and entertainment as we know them.
Brendan Fraser deserves a comeback, but he won't get one with lousy movies like Rental Family.
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value is finely-crafted, well-acted, but lacking in soul and eccentricity.
Train Dreams is one of the best films of 2025.
An exhaustive (if not complete) Orson Welles exhibition at the Cinematheque Française.
To Have and Have Not, as with all Howard Hawks films, doesn't need a tight tight plot with such charismatic characers.
The Surfer is a cut above the standard Nicolas Cage B-movie.
It Was Just an Accident is an urgent if familiar moral drama from Jafar Panahi.
Brendan Fraser’s Tokyo-set family drama is sentimental without being saccharine.
Die My Love is another excellent film from Lynne Ramsay.
In praise of the brilliant English filmmaker, who died last month at 90.
Laura Poitras' Cover-Up is a fine, reflective documentary on Seymour Hersh.
James Earl Jones stars in a movie marred by glib schmaltz.
New documentary Wick is Pain is a damning portrayal of the erratic conception of the John Wick franchise.
Artificial is more real than reality.
A good bit from Shakespeare in Love.
The movie tells a story of Argentina’s legalization of abortion.
The legal process has become the punishment for posting “unacceptable” opinions online.
It’s a good film—though the field of vision could be wider.
Bravery’s often overstated in discussions of filmmaking.
Ed Montoro headed Film Ventures International, a B-movie distributor focused on low-budget horror, martial arts and sexploitation shock flicks.
A half-hour documentary made during the production of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard.
The director talks about his new films Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague and more in this recent interview.
The filmmaker returns to the scene of the crime in this new video recorded by the Criterion Collection.
The filmmaker talks about New York being on the avant garde of all that's good and bad in America and more in this 1979 interview.
The writer pans the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson.
Roger and James Deakins talk to the cinematographer of Heat and many more in this new interview.
The cinematographer talks about shooting There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, and the end of his relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson.
Roger and James Deakins talk to the director of Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Seven Veils, and more.
Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor and more talk about their new film in this Q&A recorded at at Lincoln Center.