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Many movies have savaged filmmaking from Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BLVD to Robert Altman’s THE PLAYER to Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. The new Spanish Argentine feature OFFICIAL [...]

The short story by Joe Hill, upon which the new horror movie THE BLACK PHONE is based, tells a simple, deft, and harrowing story of child abduction in a mere 7,250 words. Writer/director Scott [...]

There’s a lot of excess in ELVIS, director Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic about Elvis Presley. Gleaming cinematography that practically glows in the dark, simple exposition scenes cut like they’re [...]

The title CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH is an odd one, a riff on the 2000 dance track by DJ Casper, that equals the offbeat tone coursing thru filmmaker Cooper Raiff’s sophomore feature. It’s a [...]

In filmmaker Michael Glover Smith’s new family dramedy RELATIVE, everything is indeed relative. A college student’s casual indifference to his own graduation party, a Type A daughter’s concern [...]

The new thriller WATCHER is ostensibly about voyeurism, stalking, and paranoia as a young woman in Budapest suspects that a neighbor across from her apartment window is watching her. However, [...]

Tony Soprano. Walter White. Don Draper. Dexter Morgan. Sheila Rubin? Indeed, it may be time to list Sheila, the lead character from Apple TV+’s dramedy PHYSICAL as one of television’s great [...]

TOP GUN: MAVERICK is a film that wants to have its cake and eat it too. The sequel, hitting theaters 36 years after its jingoistic predecessor, would like to say serious things about agism, [...]

Stephen Colbert suggests in the new HBO documentary GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM that the legendary comedian was like the Beatles to his generation of comics. Colbert is right as not only was [...]

A beleaguered mind can drive any soul to the brink, especially one plagued by a distressing cocktail of anguish, guilt, and depression. In the case of young wife Harper (Jessie Buckley), [...]