[The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Over the course of his career, David Cronenberg has become...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] One of Everything Everywhere All at Once’s many spectacularly...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Early on in Cyrano, Joe Wright’s delightfully maximalist musical...

Belle is Mamoru Hosoda’s most artistically accomplished work to date. As a longtime fan of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer...

I’m a skeptic by nature. When the blandly attractive heroes and heroines in romcoms talk about “love at first sight” and “true love,” I...

A24’s The Tragedy of Macbeth begins with narration over a blank screen. William Shakespeare’s familiar verse immediately establishes the...

Thanks to the valiant efforts of talented character actors, supporting roles are often far more memorable than any given film’s supposed...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Two swordsmen stare each other down. Wind howls through the empty...

Masayuki Suo’s Talking the Pictures ends with a quote attributed to director Hiroshi Inagaki: Movies were once silent. But in Japan, they...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The plot of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car revolves around a...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] A tower of books stacked from floor to ceiling, so perfectly...

Recently, I purchased a ticket for Japan Society’s upcoming screening of Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo, one of only three...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose....

When you get right down to it, the most memorable documentaries serve the same basic purpose as narrative films: telling stories,...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Gom Jabbar. The doomed Duke Leto’s courageous defiance in the...

[The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, ghosts are real. Skeptics may...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Near the end of the first of the three Rashomon-esque chapters that...

[The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Despite the clear iconography associated with the character, the...

This weekend, I decided to get into the spirit of the Halloween season by buying a five-movie access pass for Nightstream, a (supposedly)...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] From its mournful reprise of Louis Armstrong’s “We Have All the...