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Edward Berger trades battlefield thunder and papal intrigue for the neon haze of Macau in Ballad of a Small Player, and the downsizing mostly…
Honey Don’t! (2025) is the clearest proof yet that Joel and Ethan Coen really do their best work together. Where Joel Coen’s The Tragedy…
Kelly Reichardt continues to be one of the most observant American filmmakers, and The Mastermind (2025) is a perfect fit for her patient, detail-driven…
It Was Just an Accident is the rare political thriller that feels both ruthlessly focused and quietly devastating, the kind of film only Jafar…
The Bad Guys 2 keeps the zippy, sketchbook energy that made DreamWorks Animation’s first film easy on the eyes, then stalls once the heist…
Play Dirty is the latest in Prime Video’s conveyor belt of glossy but weightless action titles. You can feel the intentions are different this…
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a movie of firsts that never feels tentative. It is his first modern-set feature since Punch-Drunk…
The Naked Gun (2025) is the kind of spoof that lives or dies on joke density, and on that metric Akiva Schaffer mostly delivers.…
Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, his reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, proves how easily one of cinema’s greatest stories can be adapted…
I’ll admit I had more fun with The Pickup (2025) than I expected. Prime Video has been churning out a steady stream of C-tier…
It’s difficult to figure out what The Thursday Murder Club (2025) is actually trying to be. On paper, the setup suggests a witty, modern…
Ari Aster’s Eddington (2025) is a jagged political mirror—scattershot with ideas, audacious in tone—and somehow plays like a slow-burn powder-keg farce that detonates exactly…
A Perfect World (1993) is one of those films that could only have been made during a very particular stretch of Hollywood history—a mid-budget,…
Considering the rocky production history behind it, Ballerina (2025) emerges as a competent entry in the John Wick universe—though one that never quite matches…
Miller’s Crossing (1990) is the Coen Brothers’ third film, and from its very first scene, it makes clear that subtlety and control will define…
Following up the moody, low-budget neo-noir Blood Simple with the manic energy of Raising Arizona feels like one of the most jarring—but fascinating—turnarounds in…
Nearly every time I revisit Blood Simple, I’m struck by how confident and precise Joel and Ethan Coen were right out of the gate.…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud (2025) is a taut, unnerving slow-burn thriller that reminds us just how masterfully he captures the quiet dread of modern life.…
For fans of Robert De Niro, it’s worth seeing The Alto Knights (2025) simply for the novelty of his dual performance and to appreciate…
Bottle Rocket, Wes Anderson’s debut feature, still remains a charmingly offbeat and oddly sincere starting point for one of the most distinctive voices in…
A Working Man (2025) is competently made, and Jason Statham remains a watchable action lead. But at this point in his career, he’s playing…