A rousing and bombastic bit of apocalyptic disaster movie goodness, Chinese director and co-writer Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth II delivers spectacle by the truckload.
While it would appeal most primarily to bookworms, writers, and political science enthusiasts, Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is a captivating deep dive into …
Although scattered in its approach, the concert film/biography/art experiment hybrid Ever Deadly is able to dive deeply enough into the soul and mind of the artist being profiled to remain …
Although it does have moments of genuine human drama throughout, director Florian Zeller’s The Son uses unsubtle emotional manipulation to get its points across.
A restrained, slow burning, and heart wrenching drama, Alice Diop’s first fictional feature, Saint Omer, asks the viewer to stare directly into its light and darkness without flinching.
Although it doesn’t entirely work, writer-director Avan Jogia’s first feature Door Mouse has both an earnestness and courage of conviction that makes it rather likeable.
A dull and uninspired movie with a dull and uninspired title, Plane is as plain as action movies tend to come.
Knowingly self-aware and silly, but boasting a fair bit of wit and ingenuity, the horror comedy M3GAN makes the most of a familiar premise.
Writer-director Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye is a dull, but gorgeously produced and well performed bit of speculative fiction.
A work of pure spectacle and scandal, writer-director Damien Chazelle’s overblown, risky, and compulsively watchable Babylon is a film with love for the past made with the most post-modern of …