
Father Neptune
Science fiction set in the outer recesses of the solar system gives directors infinite license to break from the needs [...]

Linklater heads south
Imagine this: You're a little hungry, so you step into a small Italian trattoria for a meal. You have modest [...]

Breaking the rules
Director Quentin Tarantino, the ultimate rule-breaker, is at it again in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” A kinder, [...]

Feminism comes to “Toy Story”
The latest installment of “Toy Story” is a romantic comedy in the classic mold, featuring Woody (Tom Hanks) as the [...]

Bad times get worse
There is reason to believe that 2018's “Bad Times” could have been a very good film. The contained, isolated setting [...]

The bonds that tie
The scene that best defines “The Sisters Brothers” takes place along a river bank in the remote, anarchic, gold-rush California [...]

Peeling back Peele
For director and writer Jordan Peele, there’s always another layer to be revealed — a subterranean one. In “Get Out!” [...]

An artist bears witness
Director and writer Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-nominated “Never Look Away,” loosely based on the life of top-selling German artist [...]

Hot blood, cold war
In a year in cinema dominated by both race and films “based on a true story,” “Cold War,” filmed in [...]

“Wisdom born of pain”
After a first enigmatic scene —buckets of soapy water flowing over a stone surface — it seems clear early on [...]

What’s to forgive?
When we’re introduced to Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), she’s just been fired (apparently from "The New Yorker" magazine, where she [...]