'Godzilla Minus Zero': The King Returns Bigger, Louder, and More Devastating Than Ever
Yes, the title is ridiculous on its face. It is also, if you follow Yamazaki's logic, a genuinely coherent statement about a film concerned with how you balance grief with growth, vengeance with peace, and self-sacrifice with self-preservation.
'Carrie': Never Doubt Mike Flanagan's Timely, Devastating Reimagining That Earns Its Place Beside the Original
Howell finds the tragedy not in helplessness but in wanting, in reaching, in almost getting there before the world takes it away. It is a star-making performance, and the industry needs to pay attention.
'Primetime': Lance Oppenheim's Fever Dream Is One of the Year's Most Unsettling Experiences
From its opening frames, the film plays like a surreal, neon-soaked Lynchian horror, and that register is not a stylistic accident. It is the only honest way to approach this material.
'Pressure': Forecasting Doom, Duty, And The Weight Of One Impossible Decision
... who knew meteorology could feel this stressful?
Two Bozos, One Sociopath, Zero Plan: Macon Blair's Gloriously Unhinged Road Comedy is a Blast
If that setup made you laugh, buckle in. If it made you wince, this may not be your movie. Macon Blair is not interested in meeting you halfway.
'The Sun Never Sets': A Love Triangle That Feels Uncomfortably Real and Impossible to Look Away From
It is one of those choices that makes you want to yell at the screen, but also recognize as something people do all the time when fear and love start colliding.
Destin Daniel Cretton Gives Spider-Man Back to New York, and to Us
There is a particular kind of misery that this character carries best, the kind that accumulates quietly behind the mask, and Holland finally lets you feel all of it.
'Coyote vs. Acme': The Movie Acme Didn't Want You to See, and the One We All Fought to Watch
It is the ideal frame for a character whose entire existence has been defined by the gap between ambition and outcome, between desire and the anvil that lands on your head every single time.
Little Death, Big Feelings : Jane Schoenbrun's Dazzling Slasher “Reboot” Becomes a Bloody Love Letter to Identity, Desire, and Horror Itself
... underneath the blood and camp is something deeply sincere. A film about identity. About desire. About the stories that shape us.
Before the Name Meant Anything: A Portrait of Anthony Bourdain as a Young Disaster
Because when you love someone the way the world came to love Bourdain, the last thing you should do is flatten them into a monument. The braver move is to show them being spectacularly, recognizably human.
Why 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' is a Mammoth Hit
What’s at stake? It is perhaps the single most important question when writing a story, be it a novel, screenplay, or newspaper article. What is at stake in the story?
Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet: Adapting The ‘All Knowing Narrator’ and Shooting Spiritually
Zhao and Zal masterfully interpreted this omniscient literary narration into an all-seeing camera that gives the film the sense that something bigger than us is always watching.
How 'The Invite' Nails Storytelling with Only Four People
It’s unexpected, it’s honest, and it’s the funniest outcome that sets the tone for an emotional rollercoaster of an evening.
30 Under 30 Under 30
It was horrifying and beautiful and in that split second, I learned something about myself. And isn’t that why we go to the movies?
A New Documentary Shows The Most Vulnerable Victims Of War: Animals
Only after he was on the other side filming at a particular angle, he saw the thin thread he somehow missed that would have set off explosives.
