Amidst the general landscape of modern melodramatic cinema, deteriorating marital relationships are far from a fresh subject. However, Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason (who shot to international recognition...
Resurrection may only be Bi Gan’s third full-length feature film, but this genre-spanning epic feels like the exact kind of bold artistic statement he’s been trying to make his entire career. If his...
Park Chan-Wook’s No Other Choice is neither the first nor most faithful film adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s satirical crime novel The Ax, the former of which initially discouraged the director...
If there was ever an apt director to boldly update Jang Joon-hwan’s hostage thriller Save the Green Planet! to suit America’s recent conspiracy theory crisis, it would definitely be Yorgos Lanthimos....
Don’t be fooled by how similar in name they sound: Nirvanna the Band is not the grunge group Kurt Cobain spearheaded in the 1990s before his untimely death (that one is spelled “Nirvana”). It's the...
The summer 2025 box office was especially interesting. The lineup for summer 2025 was extremely promising. The summer provided movies that were the most highly anticipated of 2025, with a few tracking...
Perhaps more so than any other film in recent years, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is the defining work of this crazy current millennium, which comes as a real surprise given what it’s...
Osgood Perkins’ horror-comedy The Monkey offers up a lot of gore and a lot of laughs at the same time. From the director of the 2024 smash hit Longlegs and based on Stephen King’s short story of the...
The road to Bong Joon-Ho’s next project after his Oscar-winning class-struggle thriller Parasite was paved with immensely high expectations, even as it became clear he was actually returning to Snowpiercer’s...
First-person storytelling puts us inside a character’s mind to experience the world around them as they do, to see every little thing they see. RaMell Ross’ bold historical drama Nickel Boys pushes...
Video game worlds are often ripe for adaptation into other mediums. In the 2000s, video game novelizations were the big thing. Series like Assassin's Creed, Halo, Diablo, Final Fantasy, and more were all...
Few modern-day epics feel so uncannily plucked from another era as Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. It’s as though Francis Ford Coppola had turned in another towering American saga like The Godfather,...
