Some films don’t know what they want to be – and that’s certainly the case with Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, a film that continuously struggles to find its footing. There’s a lot of ...

Religious dramas are not really my cup of tea, to use a British expression. I’m a big fan of Ingmar Bergman, but I’m not really fond of The Seventh Seal or The Virgin Spring. I adore Martin ...

In Rose of Nevada, the sea does not simply serve as a backdrop but as a force of memory and fate. Mark Jenkin returns to his home county of Cornwall with a tale that blends folklore, ghost story, ...

Day three of the 52nd Telluride Film Festival has revealed a striking theme woven through its lineup: imperfect fathers. Across many of the films I have seen thus far—La grazia, Springsteen: ...

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema’s greatest ...

All that lives must die,/Passing through nature to eternity.” -Hamlet Act One, Scene 2 Early in Chloé Zhao’s staggering Shakespearean fairytale, Hamnet, Agnes (Jessie Buckley) asks Will (Paul ...

Since the start of humanity, mankind has always been fascinated with the concept of time. The notion of past, present, future has often been analyzed in literature, music, film, theater: even ...

Yesterday was an easygoing two-film day, bookended by parties. I kicked things off at the Focus Features event, where Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal dropped in to support Hamnet, and Jesse Plemons ...

One year after over-performing at the Oscars with the sleeper hit I’m Still Here, Brazil is poised to potentially do it again with another film analyzing the brutal effects of its military ...

Famously for not announcing their lineup until the day before, the Telluride Film Festival list is here, filled with highly anticipated world premieres including Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet starring ...

The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF), presented by Artemis Rising Foundation, announced today its Opening Night selection, David Freyne’s Eternity (US Premiere), with star Elizabeth ...

Director Jay Roach (Meet the Parents) and Oscar-nominated writer Tony McNamara (Poor Things) had never met before collaborating on a remake of the dark comedy The War of the Roses. But like the ...