Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling revive the image of the self-drowned woman with ...

Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is fun and funny, but it also just might be her most chilling portrait of America to date ...

Dry Leaf, Rose of Nevada, and Levers present us with surfaces so textured and tactile that they have the physicality of a ...

She is eternally delightful, of course, in her Oscar-winning performance. The courting ritual on Annie’s balcony holds up, and the subtitling of her and Alvy’s thoughts still spawns copycat scenes.

Classical Hollywood fetishism has found a most enchanting ambassador. Farran Smith Nehme of The Self-Styled Siren turns the articulation of cliché and convention into a sport—no surprise she’s chosen ...

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After years of respecting the work of Meryl Streep, what was it that made audiences suddenly fall in love with her in The Devil Wears Prada? It’s not that we ever took her for granted—14 Oscar ...

I don’t believe in the idea of guilty pleasures because I don’t think you should feel guilty about liking anything. (My boyfriend on the other hand says he definitely feels guilty about loving B.A.P.S ...

All of which explains why a touch of Enthronement Syndrome has crept up on Kiarostami, with the worshipful attitude of some devotees sparking a backlash from others who question whether this emperor ...

It’s a sign of how quickly things change in the movie business, but there was no such thing conceptually as a “reboot.” That idea didn’t exist when I came to look at Batman. That’s new terminology.

“I always think that everyone else is having a really good time, and I’m not having anywhere near as good a time as they are.” —Steven Soderbergh, in Cannes, before winning the Palme d’Or “Now I think ...

Paul Verhoeven is waiting for me in the Cary Grant Theater at Columbia’s Culver City studio, and I wonder if the irony delights him. Ten years ago, he was a director of internationally successful ...