“Shiva Baby” Is a Hilarious Treatise on the Pains of Being a Millennial
Director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott talk sugar babies, career anxiety and the definition of Jewish comedy
It's Time to Pay the Queen of Sexploitation the Respect She Deserves
Doris Wishman is the most prolific female filmmaker who ever lived. So how come no one knows her name?
The Future of Hollywood Belongs to Lakeith Stanfield
His turn as an FBI informant in “Judas and the Black Messiah” is the latest in a string of generation-defining performances
The First Great Film of 2021 Attempts to Drink Away the Male Midlife Crisis
A group of friends embark on a journey of “controlled alcoholism” in Thomas Vinterberg's “Another Round”
What Draws So Many Boomers to America's Largest Retirement Community?
More than 130,000 seniors take up residence at Orlando's The Villages. A new documentary sets out to understand what brought them there.
Who Is George Clooney, Director, Anyway?
Toward a definition of a reliable but middling auteurial career
Remembering “Heat” for What It Was: The Most Homoerotic Film of the ’90s
Nominally it's an action movie, but the simmering tension between De Niro and Pacino belongs to another genre
Is David Fincher’s “Mank” a Netflix Psy-Op? An Investigation.
There’s an intentionality to be ascribed to Netflix’s choice to give a green light to a script that the director himself confesses all the other studios passed on
Revisiting 1980, The Year the Movies Killed Disco
"Xanadu" and "Apple" have both gained a cult following for their woeful depictions of a movement past its prime
“Hillbilly Elegy” and the Rise of the Award-Season Thirst Trap
Why did Amy Adams and Glenn Close choose to do such a bad movie? For the Oscar.
Surrealist Masterpiece “The Twentieth Century” Might Be the Best Film of 2020
Director Matthew Rankin discusses his brilliant “Heritage Minute from Hell"
Sofia Coppola’s DIY Debut Was a Towering Monument to Gen-X Malaise
In 1994, Comedy Central gave Sofia Coppola a contract. She gave them "Hi-Octane."
25 Years Later, It’s Obvious We Got “Showgirls” All Wrong
Former "Saved by the Bell" star Elizabeth Berkley's performance nearly torpedoed her entire career
How "Sexy Beast" Reinvented the Heist Film
Twenty years later, Jonathan Glazer's debut remains a singular triumph within the genre
No Director Understands the Fragile Male Ego Like Albert Brooks
Woody Allen gets the plaudits, but Brooks is the true connoisseur of men behaving meekly
Charlie Kaufman Has Reached Peak "Whoa, Dude"
"I'm Thinking of Ending Things" is the culmination of 20 years of mindbending solipsism