I was having lunch with a friend who was a well-known writer and performer who would soon leave New York to create a provocative, genre-bending cable show. And at that meal, he very kindly complimented me: “One thing I like about your reviews is that you seem not to ever go into a picture with a preconceived notion of what it’s going to be like

Lukas Dhont thought he was doing with "Close" what Anthony Schattenman's "Young Hearts," a queer adolescent love story, did. Young Hearts actually appears to care about its young leads, whereas Close used queer pain to manipulate compassion. It tells the story of a 14-year-old kid who falls for the boy next door, causing him to question his sexuali

If George (Michael Fassbender) doesn't find the cause of the security breach in his intelligence agency within the next week, tens of thousands of people will perish. The short list of suspects includes his equally talented wife, Kathryn (Cate Blanchett), a hotheaded subordinate he passed over for promotion named Freddie Smalls (Tom Burke), his you

Duke Johnson is a visionary filmmaker who is aware of the adaptability of the cinematic image. His collaboration with Charlie Kaufman on the Oscar-nominated film "Anomalisa" is primarily evidence of this understanding. (He also contributed to the stunning "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" from 2020). Johnson brings his vision to his first solo full-l

Amanda Seyfried and Canadian director Atom Egoyan have reunited for a daring psychosexual film that defies easy explanation fifteen years after she starred in "Chloe." Egoyan has always delved right into fraught familial ties without shying away from ugliness, and “Seven Veils” is perhaps his most overt exploration of familial trauma. Seyfried