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BLACK DOVES Review: Killers Like Us
Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw star in a Netflix spy thriller with similarities to Peacock's 'The Day of the Jackal' and Paramount Plus' 'Lioness.'
PASSAGES Review: A Sexy, Bracing Depiction of Modern Relationships
Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos star in a new film by Ira Sachs.
Review: WOMEN TALKING, Shut Up and Listen
Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand star in a film by Sarah Polley, inspired by true events.
Review: WOMEN TALKING, Director Sarah Polley Breaks Out
Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jesse Buckley, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand star in the excellent feminist film.
Review: NO TIME TO DIE, Daniel Craig Exits Stage Left
No Time To Die concludes Daniel Craig’s muscularly intense, emotionally dense interpretation of James Bond. That’s certainly a plus for Bond fans who’ve enjoyed this particular version of Bond, who receive an interlocked, series-spanning narrative rather than the standalone one-offs...
Review: In THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD, Charles Dickens Gets an Update
Dev Patel stars in director Armando Iannucci's fresh new adaptation of Charles Dickens' venerable novel.
Review: LITTLE JOE, Plants Are Smarter Than They Look
If I Lost My Body presents happiness as a hard-won emotion and the search for wholeness as a potentially lifelong struggle then, by comparison, Jessica Hausner’s Palme d’Or contender [at the Cannes Film Festival] Little Joe questions how far we might...
Notes on Streaming: A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL Simmers, G.L.O.W. Burns Bright
The most frequent complaint about Netflix is that their flood of new series all have too many episodes that are all too long. Here is my two-pronged solution: (1) try another streaming service; (2) watch shorter shows with fewer episodes....
Review: PADDINGTON 2 Leaves the House for the Big House
When we last saw Paddington Bear on the big screen, he had happily settled in with the Brown family, nestled safely in the heart of picturesque London. This was much to chagrin of the evil villain played by Nicole Kidman,...
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING: Tom Tykwer Talks Tom Hanks And Breaking Borders
With a career that’s been nonstop since setting off cinematic sparks with the kinetic Run Lola Run, director Tom Tykwer spoke to us about his latest film, A Hologram for the King. Tykwer talks of depicting realistic Muslim characters, breaking...
Review: IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, Old-Fashioned In The Best Possible Way
Billed as the story that inspired Moby Dick, Ron Howard's adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's National Book Award winner is a shamelessly old-fashioned sea-faring yarn recounting the true story of the Essex, a Nantucket whaleship that sank after being attacked by...
THE LOBSTER: UK Trailer For Yorgos Lanthimos' Latest Is Silly And Weird
Riding off favorable buzz at this year's Cannes, Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos' The Lobster is coming to the UK and Ireland on October 16. While the US currently doesn't have a release scheduled, the below trailer is our first real...
Review: PADDINGTON Bears Watching
Going into Paddington, I fully expected a film with the cinematic nutritional value of a marmalade sandwich. Saddled with the most cringe inducing trailer of last year, and the fact that its U.S. release got bumped into the dread month...
Review: TEENAGE Is A Fascinating Look At The Emergence Of A Cultural Norm
Who are these fickle lords of pop culture? Where did they come from? Though the awkward age has by now been institutionalized as a demographic concept with immense cultural power (see: Beiber, Demigod), "teenager" is a relatively new social concept...
Jason Clarke Out, Colin Farrell And Rachel Weisz In For Lanthimos' THE LOBSTER
With the start of principal photography on Yorgos Lanthimos' (Dogtooth, Alps) debut English language feature just around the corner there has been something of a shuffle in the cast with word that previously announced leading man Jason Clarke is no...
