If you’ve seen one film inspired by playwright Monzaemon Chikamatsu's work, you’ve pretty much seen them all. Gonza the Spearman, Night...

Let’s get this out of the way: the premise of Sailor Suit and Machine Gun is patently absurd. No self-respecting yakuza family—no matter...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS AND VIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Evil Dead Rise gets off...

The fateful first encounter between the co-protagonists of Bound—Jennifer Tilly’s femme (albeit not necessarily fatale) mob moll Violet...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Suzume distills Makoto Shinkai’s recurring themes into a single...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] What happens when four bumbling murder hobos stumble upon a quest...

From Max Schreck’s ghoulishly feral Count Orlok to Lon Chaney’s grotesquely disfigured Phantom of the Opera, the movie monsters of the...

Why wasn’t I notified that A Page of Madness is currently streaming on Prime Video? This essential work of Japanese silent cinema has...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] John Wick: Chapter 4 opens with Laurence Fishburne’s delightfully...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Scream formula is nothing if not dependable. At this point,...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Criterion Channel’s synopsis of Hideo Gosha’s Death Shadow’s...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] A Cynthia Rothrock vehicle is currently featured on the front page of the...

AKUTAGAWA opens with the construction of a puppet. As the eponymous author writes feverishly, pausing only to puff on his cigarette and...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe...

Nearly a decade after being fired by Nikkatsu for his “incomprehensible” style, Seijun Suzuki returned to the studio system to direct A...

[The following essay exaggerates my opinions for comedic effect; please don’t take it too seriously.] Back in high school, I wrote a...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Like we discussed yesterday, I really want you all to focus on...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera has been adapted to other media...

Under certain circumstances, even the most familiar of spaces can seem utterly terrifying. When you’re trapped in your own home for weeks...

Like The Shape of Water and First Reformed, Broker is a cinematic Rosetta Stone, clarifying the central themes that pervade Hirokazu...