Okay, try this one on for size. In the wake of a family tragedy, a disgruntled, middle-aged professor moves from his home in England to Argentina to teach English at...

Ever since I saw “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” back in 1989, I’ve been an admirer of director Steven Soderbergh. (In fact, I ranked that film at #2 on my list...

South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho shot to prominence when his 2019 film “Parasite” became the first foreign-language film to win the Best Picture Oscar – 91 years after the first...

Last year, the Motion Picture Academy rewarded the sweeping epic “Oppenheimer” with most of its top honors. I realize the academy doesn’t often like to repeat itself, but I believe...

Rubens Paiva was a Brazilian congressman who vehemently opposed the military coup and takeover of the Brazilian government in 1964. The dictatorship (which lasted into the 1980s) was at its...

I thought 2023 was a strong year for Hollywood. But it doesn’t come close to 2024. Consider the output was so powerful, I had to leave off “Nickel Boys,” “Good...

Halfway through the 1972 Summer Olympics – held in Germany for the first time since WWII – militant Palestinian terrorist group Black September killed two members of the Israeli Olympic...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s films have repeatedly run afoul of his government’s restrictive censorship rules. (Yes, I know. What doesn’t, in Iran?) He has been sentenced to prison time, a...

Filmmaker Robert Eggers must have seen Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” last year. This year, Eggers has taken many of those same stylistic and narrative themes and constructed his own film,...

By now, you’ve probably heard about James Mangold’s new film “A Complete Unknown.” And if you’re like me, your first thought was likely, “A film biography of Bob Dylan? Impossible!...