Going into Michel Franco‘s Memory, I was getting myself ready for a big bucket of cold water, an emotional journey that would send me into depression and want to lock myself from the world for a few hours before I...
The name Taika Waititi has now become synonymous with his work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and even then, his disastrous Thor: Love and Thunder has pretty much eclipsed all the heights Thor: Ragnarok achieved back in 2017. But the...
Set in a freezing winter break in New England in 1970, Alexander Payne‘s The Holdovers is the perfect example of those movies they don’t make anymore — think of Christophe Barratier’s Les Choristes (The Chorus) or Peter Weir’s Dead Poets...
I opened Netflix on Friday to check out Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, already bracing for impact, and I was struck by the biggest twist of all: I couldn’t find it. It might be my own algorithm, but it’s definitely not...
It’s been 5 years since the first Aquaman blew the box office out of the water and splashed $1 billion over Warner Bros.’ walls and now, the sequel is here to put an end to a 10-year chapter on the...
Bradley Cooper‘s Maestro depicts the life of famed American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, but he isn’t focused on his life’s work or accomplishments (which are rarely brought up during the two-hour runtime). Cooper’s attention is mostly set on his...
The Warner Bros. marketing department may not be interested in letting the audience know Wonka is a musical, but Paul King doesn’t let 30 seconds go by of his delicious and sweet new piece of candy before he unleashes a...
Justine Triet‘s Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une Chute), which won the Cannes Palme d’Or back in May, doesn’t follow the traditional narrative of a murder investigation. Previous whodunnits like Knives Out or Zodiac focus on the investigators looking for leads and...
As we’ve learned over the past couple of years, there have been two types of post-pandemic movies to come out of our top creators’ minds. We have the “revisiting my childhood” wave, spearheaded by movies like Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans...
Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron was once announced to be animation genius Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature film, as the 82-year-old co-founder of the studio was looking to retire after a glorious career filled with movies like Spirited Away...