"Mercy," directed by Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted") with a crisp short-attention-span gusto (the film has three editors, and ...

In an era saturated with images of suffering, Ben Hania has made a film that understands how easily images are consumed, and how difficult it is to sit with a voice that keeps asking.

Reams of scholarship and fictional takes have imagined how Shakespeare’s earthly life influenced his plays. “Hamnet” isn’t one of them. The boldly devastating film from Oscar-winning director Chloé ...

The casting of Linklater’s newest gem is like a dream come true. Playing Jean-Luc Godard is an actor who is absolutely perfect for the role, Guillaume Marbeck. He is the very definition of “Mr. Cool” ...

Midway through the superb new Joachim Trier film Sentimental Value, our troubled protagonist Nora Borg (Renate Reinsve), whose various issues with depression and family ghosts have more than earned ...

A House of Dynamite (2025) Film Review from the 63rd Annual New York Film Festival, a movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow, written by Noah Oppenheim and starring Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel ...

Giant film review with Pierce Brosnan, world premiere at the London Film Festival: ★★★★ Speculation about Pierce Brosnan returning to James Bond seems less outrageous after watching Giant, in which ...

One of the salient virtues and primary artistic selling points of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is Rose Byrne’s extreme readiness for her close-up. And it’s a probing, merciless and epic close-up factor ...

NewFest: Elliot Tuttle pits an adult camboy against the middle-school teacher who once desired him in a searing movie that deserves your attention, even as most audiences will want to look away. Few ...