Movies about filmmaking seem to have a built-in spiritual dimension, as if the instinct to create art is in fact a quest comparable to Galahad’s search for the ...
Existential dread is the primary fuel for Riley Stearns’ Dual, a dark comedy about doubling. It’s the writer-director’s follow-up to his modest cult hit, The Ar...
Redeeming Love is an ambitious but uneasy attempt to add social consciousness and sexual danger to that soft and swooning genre known as the Christian r...
The Tragedy of Macbeth, written and directed by Joel Coen, is a sincere, confidently stylized take on Shakespeare’s frequently adapted play—a medieval film noir...
The Hand of God contains a dual meaning in its title. It refers to both the feeling of divine providence as well as a controversial goal scored by Argentine...
The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s first feature in 12 years, is well worth the wait. A creepingly sinister drama set in 1924, the film is an exceptionally we...
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, which he wrote and directed, is a sweet, sentimental treatment of a durable cinematic sub-genre: the childhood autobiography. Bran...
The arduous, mysterious process of transmogrifying life into art is at the very center of Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II, a semi-autobiographical follow-up...
Bergman Island refers to Fårö, the 43-square-mile body of land off the Swedish coast where legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman lived and worked. In the wake of B...
Clint Eastwood’s 41st film as director, Cry Macho, is much like the nonagenarian himself: slow-moving, a bit stiff around the joints, but confident and noble-he...
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