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Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a towering science fiction epic, one jostling with personal trauma, grief, and existential anxiety about the end of…
Radu Jude is an iconoclast and an internet troll, often at the same time. His filmography is certainly unique, and his sense of humor…
I wish we got more movies like Mile End Kicks, a nostalgia-tinged throwback to the early 2010s centered on the Montreal music scene and…
As cynical as I can be about pretty much every legacy sequel made in the modern Hollywood system, a system more and more reliant…
Kristoffer Borgli has quickly become one of the great conceivers of hooks for films. A single-sentence elevator pitch for each of his releases is…
A sadly misconstructed and ultimately disappointing film from one of the great German filmmakers of the 21st century, Christian Petzold's Miroirs No. 3 sticks…
Some movies just have it. Some movies just have the juice. It is hard to quantify, but you know it when you see it.…
Burning is a “what you give to it, it gives to you” kind of film. It dares you to reject the comfort of clear…
It is immediately obvious that A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon is a different beast than the first two films. That…
There is no getting around the fact that A Better Tomorrow II undeniably operates within the classic sequel tropes, in both the best and…
There’s real ache to Hlynur Pálmason’s The Love That Remains, a divorce movie that almost refuses to behave like one. It’s less interested in…
Oliver Laxe’s Sirāt is the kind of movie that makes you feel a little sick afterward, not because it’s trying to shock you for…
John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow is essential for one simple reason: it is the first time Woo pairs up with Chow Yun-fat, and you…
There’s a short, short list of movies that, in the moment, feel like the greatest thing you’ve ever seen. Richard Linklater has somehow made…
Before the heroic bloodshed operatics that would make John Woo a global action staple, Last Hurrah for Chivalry sits in a more classical wuxia…
There’s a very specific subgenre of movie that lives and dies on how much time you can tolerate spending with a self-sabotaging mess of…
Joachim Trier has earned enough goodwill at this point that even his “minor” films arrive with a sort of built-in reverence, especially after The…
I walked into The Secret Agent expecting another brooding, self-serious international prestige thriller, the kind of movie that arrives with capital-I Importance and dares…
Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire has the bones of a taut pressure cooker, a true-story hostage standoff that should play like a noose…
There are going to be a lot of people who tune into Magellan expecting a rigorous historical march through Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, the Portuguese…
Margin Call is the kind of single-night pressure-cooker movie that feels more intense the more you understand what it is actually dramatizing. J.C. Chandor…