“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” Review
There’s a discomforting realism to how director Mohammad Rasoulof stages this vicious critique of Iran’s political unrest. Rasoulof has experienced Iran’s most hideous censorship and faced so many critical charges
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“Sing Sing” Review
The Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison walls house something far more than a longing for freedom. It’d be so easy for a movie centering around this prison’s Rehabilitation Through the
“The Six Triple Eight” Review
Tyler Perry is a name closely associated with melodramas that range from light comedy to trashy thriller. That tone is still present in The Six Triple Eight, a true story
“A Complete Unknown” Review
What helps James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown not feel like a standard musical bio-pic is that it never tries to be all-encompassing. In a year with such sprawling musician biographies
“The Brutalist” Review
There’s something so grand about Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist that the notion kept crossing my mind that it must’ve been plucked from something else. It’s an ambitious and intricate film
“Mufasa: The Lion King” Review
Mufasa is spoken of in this prequel film as the fastest lion around. That much is true of this film, never slowing down to take a single breath in its
“Babygirl” Review
If last year’s erotic thriller Fair Play was a battle of the sexes in the shifting dynamic in the workplace, Babygirl is the fallout of that war where the women
“Maria” (2024) Review
The best part of Pablo Larraín’s films about 20th-century women is that he digs more into the psychological horror than the historical decadence of his subjects. His past films of
“The End” (2024) Review
Director Joshua Oppenheimer had crafted two of the most important documentaries of the 2010s, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, both films centering on the Indonesian genocide
“Queer” (2024) Review
Queer feels like the ultimate challenge for director Luca Guadagnino. He tries to adapt the William S. Burroughs novel in a way that explores something left unsaid about the author’s