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Sep 27, 2024
Film review: ‘Megalopolis’ is Satyricon 2024
A curious experience, this Megalopolis. Francis Ford Coppola’s 40th directorial effort has the antiqued flavor of a valedictory mega-production—especially given its opening night live-action...
Sep 18, 2024
FILM REVIEW: ‘The Substance’ is insubstantial
French director Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is a misconceived, witless, leaden piece of work. More than that, it could be seen as the mildest—aside...
Aug 10, 2024
Film review: ‘Cuckoo’ takes time to sort out
Cuckoo clocks in at 102 minutes, but it will take at least that long for even the most forgiving horror movie fan to sort...
Aug 6, 2024
Colman Domingo shines in ‘Sing Sing’
Colman Domingo is one of the most significant character actors in American films today. Maybe the most significant, given his work in such films...
Jul 16, 2024
Shimizu Hiroshi honored at BAMPFA
It’s perfectly understandable to have never heard the name Shimizu Hiroshi mentioned in a discussion of the great classical Japanese filmmakers. Despite having directed...
Jul 9, 2024
It’s artists’ choice at Fraenkel Film Festival
The “double feature” craze keeps rolling. First came Turner Classic Movies’ “Two for One” series this Spring, in which an impressive lineup of filmmakers—Martin...
Jun 29, 2024
‘Kinds of Kindness’ is Kind of a Chore
Here’s a quick “Test Your Entertainment-Biz Marketing Skills” quiz. How many aware, intelligent moviegoers wake up in the morning with the thought, “Gee, I’d...
Jun 5, 2024
‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Travels a Familiar Highway
Re: George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: Once more, we find ourselves plunged into Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle.
Debord (1931-1994), a...