Michael Atkinson

I never watched To Catch a Predator when it ran on Dateline NBC from 2004 to 2007, being more or less allergic to 21st-century television’s version of “reality”...

In just over five years and three modest films, Jane Schoenbrun has established themself as an indisputable auteur with a particular, and maybe even troublesome...

As heinously ludicrous as any movie spawned this decade by a filmmaker whose name you might recognize, Nicolas Winding Refn’s first film since 2016, Her Private...

As cantankerously mysterious as it is fastidiously sensorial, Mark Jenkin’s new film, Rose of Nevada, practically comes with its own scratch-n-sniff card — ...

Not the first feature film derived from distracting Internet nonsense, but maybe the best, Kane Parsons’s Backrooms might be difficult to fathom — as in, what t...

Probably the first question you’re compelled to ask is, of course, who’s Lee Cronin? You can smell the gall from here on this new Blumhouse franchise-kindling-s...

What with Russia’s gangsterish siege of Ukraine,the Trump administration’s shady acquiescence to it,and the concurrent worldwide slide toward neo-fascist amoral...

OK Gen-Zers, leggo yer multiverse this and multiverse that — it’s older than your great-granddad’s first pulp paperback, used as a term by William James as earl...

It’s nearly impossible to watch Jia Zhang-ke’s new film, Caught by the Tides — a fractured, circumstantial portrait of the Chinese quotidian in the 21st cen...

It’s a curious project to remake in the 2020s — Françoise Sagan’s slim scandal-smash 1954 novel, published when she was 18 and less than a decade after the end ...