It Will Happen Tonight pulls off a very difficult trick: it takes a story of infidelity and makes it exceptionally romantic.

Up to this point, the new DCU has a perfect record with me. I’ve liked or loved every film and every show it has released so far, so Clayface had a streak to protect before I even sat down. The noise ...

Back in 2023, Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You) turned a nearly wordless Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart), a lonely house, and some of the best sound design of that year into one of my favorite surprises ...

The first thing I liked about this movie was its title. The 1953 ascent of Everest has often been told as Edmund Hillary’s story, with the Sherpa who reached the summit beside him mentioned as the ...

I almost skipped this one. The press screening for The Social Reckoning was early in the morning, I was exhausted, and a follow-up to The Social Network without David Fincher (Se7en) directing or ...

French family film Words of Love aka Quelques Mots d’Amour is about a tough but ordinary topic: how a child comes to terms with the fact the family they have is not the family they want. It features a ...

The Brazilian experimental filmmaker Ana Vaz is probably best known for her 2022 project É Noite na América (It is Night in America). The project premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and she has ...

In The Black Ball directors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (known as Los Javis) and cinematographer Gris Jordana have created an unusually beautiful work of art. The Black Ball is kind and tender, ...

It’s still somewhat unusual for movies out of China to be made in one of their quote-unquote minority languages, and it’s a bit odd to refer to Teochew, which has approximately 20 million speakers, as ...

The best film of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival premiered out of competition. La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer, which has the English title De Gaulle: Résistance, is an absolute triumph of cinema.

Gregory Maguire has brought the land of Oz to us in ways we could never have imagined a century ago. We’ve gotten the story behind the Wicked Witch of the West (as both an adult and a child), her ...

Shereford, New Hampshire is the kind of small town that makes other small towns envious. There’s a perfect little main street, all of two full-time cops (and a third part-time one), and the local rich ...