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!...

By now, you’ve probably heard French director Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” is a musical about a man who transitions to a woman. Based on knowing no more than this, you’ve...

David and Benji are cousins who decide to take a weeklong vacation together after drifting apart during the past few years. As they are Jewish and their late grandmother was...

Chilean director Pablo Larrain has completed his trilogy of films about important women of the 20th century. In 2016, he released “Jackie,” a fascinating account of Jackie Kennedy’s life during...

21 years after the stage musical first opened, Stephen Schwartz’ and Winnie Holzman’s “Wicked” has finally hit the big screen. And unlike many motion picture adaptations of musicals, this one’s...

Denzel Washington has made it his goal to adapt all of the late August Wilson’s plays into motion pictures. He personally directed “Fences” (2016) and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (2020)....

Edward Berger’s new drama “Conclave” has been hailed as one of this year’s best films. And it is, for the most part, a tight, gripping production for adults, featuring solid...

Perhaps no film this year has built up expectations quite like Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a modern-day take on the screwball comedy genre, ramped up to power ten. This is the...

There was an excellent film out last month called “The Outrun” in which Saoirse Ronan plays an alcoholic who returns to her isolated Scottish village and attempts to set her...