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Now Streaming: GOOD BOY, SANGRE DEL TORO, TRAIN DREAMS

Plus: 'After the Hunt' and 'The Roses.'

Friday One Sheet: TRAIN DREAMS

Here is a lovely hand-drawn poster from design house Grandson, and artist Sally Deng, for Clint Bentley's Train Dreams, which illustrates one of the films central images: work boots nailed to a tree, a potent visual metaphor for the manifest destiny...

Toronto 2025 Review: TRAIN DREAMS, Where the New World Is an Old Place

Nature is vast and indifferent. It is often cruel. And yet the sunrises and the sunsets are glorious, any life is extraordinary, and regardless of the time, place or circumstances of one’s birth, there are unfathomable wonders intermingled with pain...

Now Streaming: Gareth Edwards, MONSTERS, GODZILLA, ROGUE ONE

Also: 'The Creator,' as we ramp up for the director's latest, 'Jurassic World Rebirth.'

ANDOR: Season Two Review

So, are you a 'bad news first' kind of person or a 'good news first' kind of person?

THE BRUTALIST Review: Big Canvas, Real Intimacy, Human Grace

Brady Corbet directs; Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn star.

Friday One Sheet: THE BRUTALIST

Typography is no stranger to the design of Brady Corbet's "Monumental" new film, The Brutalist. The credits in both the film, and its recent trailer, do interesting things. This carries into this iconic poster, with the Statue of Liberty upside...

A Superb Trailer for Brady Corbet's 70mm Epic, THE BRUTALIST

One of the best films of the year gets one of the best trailers of the year. Harnessing an early scene in the film, before breaking into a montage of the celebration of artictectural form, with the joy and pain...

Toronto 2024 Review: THE BRUTALIST, A Grand and Unexpected Cinematic Epic

Out of the gate with its Vista-Vision logo and overture, The Brutalist promises the kind of grand Hollywood epic, and old-school cinematic hubris, that more or less went away 40 years ago with Micheal Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate and Sergio Leone’s...

Review: THE AERONAUTS, Come Fly with Felicity and Eddie

Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne reunite for a high-flying adventure, directed by Tom Harper.

Destroy All Monsters: The Meme-ification of ROGUE ONE

I'm consistently fascinated by how pop cultural mega-properties take hold in the discourse of the group they are ostensibly created for, the fans. There's an interesting cycle created here. As the internet's "official" criticism gets more and more wrapped up...

Review: A MONSTER CALLS Goes Through the Motions

You might be able to argue that J.A. Bayona is not the most original filmmaker currently working today, but there is no denying that he has a masterful understanding of how to direct a film that will grab (almost) all...

Review: ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Has It Where It Counts

Spoiler Alert! The Death Star plans, so intensely pursued for the entirety of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, do in fact reach their proper destination, allowing Luke Skywalker to destroy the imposing monolithic super-weapon. (End of Spoiler) But you...

Black Nights 2016 Review: A MONSTER CALLS, Emotional Manipulation at its Finest

You might be able to argue that J.A. Bayona is not the most original filmmaker current working today, but there is no denying that he has a masterful understanding of how to direct a film that will grab (almost) all...

ROGUE ONE: Loads Of New Footage In New Japanese Trailer

While we were all playing Luc Besson's Valerian trailer on constant repeat yesterday a certain other science fiction film also slipped out a new trailer with a new spot for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story rolling out in Japan....

Critical Distance: INFERNO, Why It's Good to See Bad Movies

The word is out on Ron Howard's Inferno. Only 20% of critics gave it a positive review, per Rotten Tomatoes. Visitors to that site were kinder, as 43% gave it a positive nod. Yet audiences in general were not interested...

AnarchyVision: Talking MOONLIGHT, THE HANDMAIDEN and More

In this weekend at the movies chat, I talk about the fantastic Moonlight, Park Chan-Wook's terrific The Handmaiden, the great music doc Oasis: Supersonic and, uh, Inferno....

New Trailer For A MONSTER CALLS Gives Us ... A Big Talking Tree

Juan Antonio Bayona's new film, A Monster Calls, has been slowly teasing its potential audience with cast announcements, photos, and one teaser released late last year. And now, still six months before the film's release, there is a new trailer....

ROGUE ONE Trailer Arrives And Fully Delivers On Expectations

Let the debate begin in earnest on the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, for the first full trailer for the Gareth Edwards helmed spin off film has arrived. And, to these eyes, the idea of unshackling new directors...

A MONSTER CALLS In The Teaser To Bayona's Latest

How do you launch a film that is not a sequel or superhero property and doesn't come with a massive built in audience in the current day and age? You start early, apparently. At least that's what they're doing with...