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Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is an evolution of her form and the heist genre.
Play Dirty deserved better than to be dumped on Amazon Prime.
A House of Dynamite is a strange nuclear drama by Kathryn Bigelow.
Poorly executed and politicaly incoherent, One Battle After Another is the worst film of Paul Thomas Anderson's career.
Richard Linklater's Blue Moon and Radu Jude's Dracula take opposite angles on people who want to be taken seriously.
Emilie Blichfeldt’s debut is harrowing and lovely.
Bennington remembers Henry Jaglom (a friend).
Eleanor the Great is a roundabout film full of inexplicable choices.
Black Rabbit is a classy workplace drama with some stumbles.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey fails as the appetite for fantastical pop optimism fades in the face of horror.
No Other Choice, Late Fame, and Miroirs No. 3 at the 63rd New York Film Festival.
Robert Altman, Patricia Resnick, and the failed attempts to merchandize Quintet (1979).
Trevor Moore’s Weapons, Pynchon’s Battle.
After the Hunt is Luca Guadagnino's worst film.
Great “Springtime for Hitler” in the remake.
Here’s to you, Billy Wilder.
Only Spielberg's Minority Report made The New York Times’ list of the 100 best films of the 21st century so far.
Lurker is a warning about the narcissistic, destructive abilities of those that call themselves “fans.”
Too much plot, too many metaphors.
How Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One relates to The Perils of Pauline (1914) and AI.
Before there was Psycho, there was the Christo-fascist slasher.
Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor and more talk about their new film in this Q&A recorded at at Lincoln Center.
Paul Thomas Anderson talks to Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo about his new film.
The late filmmaker talks about All the President's Men in this BBC interview first aired on April 24, 1976.
Claude Lelouch's high speed drive through Paris on a sleepy Sunday morning in the summer of 1976.
The British film critic reviews the new film by Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.
The editor and cinematographer talk about camerea movement, Robert Bresson, and more in this 93-minute conversation.
The actor recalls missing an opportunity to play Nick Nightingale in Kubrick's final film, a role that eventually went to Todd Field.
The filmmaker talks to Roger and James Deakins about reshoots, directing Out of Sight, and more in this new interview.
The director talks about Megalopolis, the future of cinema, and more in this October 2024 interview.