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Another award-winner found a more natural fit between form and content: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” (B / ), equal parts the party movie and protest movie of the festival. This documentary brought down the house on ...
“Ne Zha 2” is a rare sequel that amplifies both its action and drama without sacrificing much of what already worked in the last movie.
Many film festival reviews of “The Shadow Strays” have understandably stressed the movie’s show-stopping gore and relentless, over-the-top violence, which feels like an extension of the breathless, bravura extremity that defined Tjahjanto and Irfan’s breakthrough collaboration on “The Night Com...
Many film festival reviews of “The Shadow Strays” have understandably stressed the movie’s show-stopping gore and relentless, over-the-top violence, which feels like an extension of the breathless, bravura extremity that defined Tjahjanto and Irfan’s breakthrough collaboration on “The Night Com...
Movie Reviews Great Movies TV/Streaming Interviews Collections Sundance ContributorsFeatures The Future of the Movies, Part 4: The Necessity of DiscoveryRobert Daniels January 21, 2025 6 min read This series presents a different essay by a different writer that starts from a simple premise: “The ...
Tomris Laffly is a freelance film writer and critic based in New York. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), she regularly contributes to RogerEbert.com, Variety and Time Out New York, with bylines in Filmmaker Magazine, Film Journal International, Vulture, The Playlist and...
Green continues to establish herself as an insightful chronicler of the minor yet devastating terrors of violent masculinity that many women endure everywhere they go.
Hodaka and Hina’s richly detailed environment is also probably the thing you’ll remember most about “Weathering With You,” a compelling fantasy with a generic conclusion. Most of movie’s story is told from Hodaka’s point-of-view, which gives Shinkai’s latest a familiar trajectory: boy...