This childhood favourite is tightly narrated, well-structured, and seriously-made yet loose and fun.
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Gene Tierney gives her most iconic performance in this terrific Technicolor noir.
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Scott Derrickson’s horror film contemplates tangible evil and how divine grace can overcome it.
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Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is marked by a strong performance by Denzel Washington as well as a preoccupation with its own artifice.
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As far as streaming content goes, Spiderhead isn’t bad, but it asks questions it has no real interest in answering.
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Knotts and Conway’s bumbling outlaw duo make The Apple Dumpling Gang an amusing entry point into the Western genre for little kids.
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Hustle is a movie about an NBA lifer made for lifelong fans of the game.
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This naked attempt at content (re)generation is packaged alongside some arch yet soft satire and meta-commentary.
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Tom Cruise keeps the old-school Hollywood action blockbuster alive with his aerial theatrics in Top Gun: Maverick.
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After eight years, David Cronenberg returns with an entertaining, haunting, deeply-weird picture that casts an entrancing spell with its provocative ideas and imagery.
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Anders and Aren discuss Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, its stunning use of sound, its interest in dreamscapes, and its investigation of the anomalous.
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Weighed down by its deliberately conventional plotting, this Nicolas Cage meta movie still amuses, thanks largely to Cage and Pedro Pascal’s easygoing chemistry.
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Robert Eggers’ The Northman is a violent Viking epic that offers a portrait of the past as an alien experience yet recognizably human.
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Daniel Roher’s film is an exciting profile of a famous political dissident.
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A Symphony for a Common Man persuasively connects the world in the wake of 9/11 to the world of today.
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An impressionistic portrait of three youths amid the landscape of contemporary urban Russia.
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This documentary on the phenomenon of chronic Lyme disease may not make a slam dunk case, but it offers plenty of musings on the nature of medical diagnosis and treatment for a society emerging from a global pandemic.
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This avant-garde documentary about the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant asks the viewer for total surrender, but doesn’t earn it.
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Matt Sarnacki’s documentary traces the explosive fallout of the murder of Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová on February 21, 2018.
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Sean Wang’s film provides a concrete example for abstract discussions of “global supply chains.”
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