Hollywood Features
Now Streaming: STRANGER THINGS, BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI, THE BALTIMORONS
Plus: 'Left-Handed Girl,' 'The Beatles Anthology' and new 'Krypto Saves the Day!'
Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery
Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday.
Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT
Kleber Mendonça Filho makes politically charged dramas that draw their power from the everyday, letting ordinary Brazilian life tighten with the slow, simmering tension of a thriller. His films lay bare the class rifts and quiet violences embedded in the...
Screen Anarchists On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN
While Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein passed me by during its limited theatrical run, it sure arrived on Netflix pretty fast. I checked it out, discussed it with colleagues, and noticed there were many different opinions on it,...
Now Streaming: GOOD BOY, SANGRE DEL TORO, TRAIN DREAMS
Plus: 'After the Hunt' and 'The Roses.'
Now Playing: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, THE RED SPECTACLES
Also now in movie theaters: 'Rental Family,' 'Kokuho,' 'Wicked: For Good,' 'Cactus Pears.'
Opening This Week: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, Plus 2 FYC Contenders and a Drama
Our guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.
Playback: Guillermo del Toro, Monstrous Beauty from CRONOS to FRANKENSTEIN
Guillermo del Toro treats fear as a form of faith. His stories believe in what frightens us because it's often what defines us. The Mexican director builds ornate, allegorical worlds where the monster is never merely monstrous. His films are...
Opening This Week: Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN, John Swab's KING IVORY
Also: 'Muzzle: City of Wolves,' 'Trap House,' 'Now You See Me: Now You Don't.'
Now Playing: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, DIE MY LOVE, NUREMBERG
As we said earlier this week, "we love movies. And we love the theatrical experience. There's no better way to experience fully the filmmakers' intention." In this new weekly feature, we will update our 'look-ahead' guide from each Monday, updated...
Now Streaming: ABRAHAM'S BOYS, Human Monsters, FRANKENSTEIN, The Real Monster
Beyond the monsters, 'Materialists,' 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps,' and 'Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale' are now streaming, plus: #Noirvember!
Now Streaming: PLURIBUS Sci-Fi Mysteries, DEATH BY LIGHTNING Dramatizes History
Plus: 'All Her Fault' soaps up the tension.
Playback: Lynne Ramsay, Emotional Ruptures from RATCATCHER to DIE MY LOVE
Lynne Ramsay studies how pain takes shape. The Scottish director harnesses a poetic, sensory style in which her intimate stories of grief are barbed and transcendent. She is drawn to haunted characters, whether that be openly or implicitly. These stories...
Now Streaming: BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER Spins Sadness
Plus: 'Hedda' and 'Jurassic World Rebirth' in our weekly guide to genre movies debuting on streaming services.
Friday One Sheet: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Seizing on the final 'set-piece' of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, French designer Melanie Danna created this alternate poster for the film, with the title text highlighting the 'bumps in the road', as it were. Also note the...
Playback: Yorgos Lanthimos, Disorder and Discomfort, from KINETTA to BUGONIA
Yorgos Lanthimos delights in discomfort. Lanthimos built a career on ritualized absurdity and moral distortion, spinning stories where love, control, and social order are pushed to the brink of the surreal. From Dogtooth's domestic isolation to Poor Things's sexually-charged, Frankensteinian...
Friday One Sheet: CRIME 101
After the opening credits and marketing from HBO's True Detective, the silhouette/landscape design trope became fairly ubiquitous in movie posters. Noteworthy that the key art for Denis Villeneuve's criminally under seen Enemy kind of got there first. I am generally...
Now Streaming: MR. SCORSESE Talks, DEVIL IN DISGUISE - JOHN WAYNE GACY Nauseates
Plus: 'Loot,' Season 3, sees Maya Rudolph return.
Now Streaming: OTHER, David Moreau's New Thriller
Plus: '40 Acres' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.'
Playback: Jafar Panahi, Cinema Under Pressure, from THE WHITE BALLOON to IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Jafar Panahi makes films under immense pressure. The Iranian filmmaker's conditions of censorship and surveillance have become the grammar of his storytelling. Out of those limits, he's built one of the most radical bodies of work, where love for one's...
