Olivier Assayas has made a rare thing: a portrait of modern Russia as a complex, living thing.
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Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic is a cinematic fantasy, for better and for worse.
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This personal documentary digs into the problem of legal problem of indivision on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
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The Seoul Guardians is a gripping account of the failed coup in South Korea in December 2024.
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This video essay seeks to paint a damning portrait of AI, but is undone by its haphazard presentation.
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As political assassinations once again become routine in America, Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View becomes essential viewing.
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This frenetic documentary charting the construction and impact of the CN Tower is fun Canadian boosterism.
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This 1997 supernatural legal thriller gains some interest from Al Pacino’s entertaining turn as the Devil himself, but the surrounding melodrama is lacking.
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The 6th Day is accidentally prescient in some matters, but is mostly an ungainly action thriller from the turn of the millennium.
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This subversive reimagining of the Super Mario Brothers is both terribly conceived and terribly executed.
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Mervyn LeRoy’s pre-Code comedy starring William Powell acts as a 1930s precursor to The Wolf of Wall Street.
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is entertaining, pleasant, and completely devoid of any dramatic tension or narrative substance.
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Predator: Badlands is like Robison Crusoe with killer plants, bizarre alien creatures, and severed androids.
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An amusing and sometimes insightful comedy of manners about four tech oligarchs.
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David Leitch’s action comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt is fun until it’s not.
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Anton and Aren debate whether William Wyler’s 1939 version of Wuthering Heights is the definitive adaptation of the book.
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Kathryn Bigelow’s latest is riveting for 40 minutes, but deeply unsatisfying as an examination of nuclear war.
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Anton analyzes Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights as an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s literary classic.
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This mockumentary starring Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol is a complex metafiction farce and a loving portrait of friendship and Toronto.
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Joe Carnahan’s cop thriller starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck is an enjoyable whodunnit.
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