'The Banshees of Inisherin' (seen at TIFF 2022) mines great comedy from its contained story and tiny-island setting, meditating on accepting the discontent in life. …
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Looking back on the show’s first season as we are now deep into an era of endless shoveling of trite nostalgia and meaningless revivals.…
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This is a powerful documentary about Nan Goldin’s life and work against the Sackler family and their role in the opioid epidemic.…
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Spielberg’s latest sits in those split-second slices of (either painful or glorious) humanity in childhood that define you.…
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‘Wendell & Wild’ is a vibrant, compelling watch offering so much of what has recently been desperately called for regarding children’s stories and cinema.…
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Movies are a way of life in this Toronto filmmaker's own movie.…
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While the class analysis only goes so far on this luxury yacht, ‘Triangle of Sadness’ is still a fun and rollicking ride. …
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This fake television special starring “Sissy St. Claire” is a theatrical spectacle with a desperate protagonist.…
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The film falls into a newly developing and disinteresting (if not downright problematic) trend of “girlboss feminism film.”…
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Veronica Phillips reflects on 'Nope' and its depiction of California life, and the haunting worlds of bland hills and blinding lights.…
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