A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. From th more »
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. more »
New York, 1961. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, cu more »
The story of Claressa 'T-Rex' Shields, a boxer from Flint, Michigan who trained to become the first woman in her country's history to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport. more »
In 1950s Mexico City, WILLIAM LEE, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of EUGENE ALLERTON, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone. more »
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. more »
After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining two-part cinematic event this holiday season. more »
Martin Scorsese made better, more Important films, but he never made any more seductive than Goodfellas. That’s the point—his camera glides over the clothes and clubs and crimes so that it’s impossible to miss what Ray Liotta’s around-the-way kid and Lorraine Bracco’s mob wife see in them, until the whole thing collapses in lies more »
With all due respect to Casablanca, The Third Man makes it look like a soap opera. They’re remarkably similar in many respects—a wartime liminal zone, an attractive woman looking for transit papers, various nationals playing various sides against each other. But Carol Reed’s made a sardonic mystery with a noir-black core, not a more »
More than just a painter, Raphael was one of the most extraordinary artists of the Renaissance but is often misunderstood or mythologised. On the basis of this extraordinary exhibition in Rome, this film allows Raphael, for the first time, to be truly revealed. more »
Wherein Wes Anderson’s movies turned into Wes Anderson Films. Fortunately, the director was able to hire Gene Hackman for a vigorous pre-retirement turn as the Peter Pan patriarch of a New York clan straight out of the pages of yellowed old issues of The New Yorker, which is where Anderson copped it all in the first place. -Lee more »
There was once a time when newspaper columnists were powerful and feared hahaha. Burt Lancaster plays the Manhattan scribbler with the juice to make or break. Tony Curtis is the hustling press agent trying to curry favor and not lose his soul in the bargain. They battle it out with Clifford Odets’ zingy dialogue amid James Wong more »
Italian crime films from the ‘70s tend to overpromise and underdeliver, but not Caliber 9. Icy-eyed Gastone Moschin (The Conformist, The Godfather Part II) plays a hood fresh out of prison for swiping a pile of cash. The cops and his old cronies both want him to cough up his stash. Does he care? What do you think? RIYL tough guy more »
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. more »
The quest for the Holy Grail has failed, and without a quest, King Arthur’s knights turn on each other. Lancelot (Luc Simon) is both their model and their shame, thanks to his affair with Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas), which makes him a target. Robert Bresson’s deadpan realism imbues fresh power to this oldest of tales more »
There’s been an spurt of nerd interest in arty Euro exploitation auteurs like Dario Argento and Walerian Borowcyzk, but props to Belgian dark-horse Harry Kümel for making the greatest nekkid-vampire film ever. Fassbinder diva Delphine Seyrig captivates as a mysterious countess who cozies up to a pair of hot honeymooners at an of more »
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation. more »
Jean-Pierre Melville’s final film distills his work to its essence. Weary cops (led by Alain Delon) chase calculating crooks who pull elaborate heists under gray skies and then take refuge with gorgeous women (Catherine Deneuve). The real-time heist at the center of the film is so elaborate that Melville had to stage part of it more »
On one hand, Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an indulgent fever dream that it would be easy to tar as arthouse slumming. On the other, it’s a deep dive into an America that cinema rarely sees or respects. Which is not to say that Korine isn’t trolling a bit here, but Gummo remains an indelible, even poetic screen experience. A more »
World War II just ended, and a company of Japanese soldiers struggle to cope. A private played by Shoji Yasui tries by attempting to get a hold-out company of countrymen to surrender to the British and is drawn into a personal and spiritual odyssey. Kon Ichikawa’s classic was adopted from a young-adult novel and bears some of th more »
An associate of Ram Dass, East Forest explores how music and psychedelics can facilitate transformative healing through the blending of shamanistic practices with guided psychedelic experiences. more »
While looking for a war in Africa, Jack Nicholson’s disaffected journalist stumbles across a dead businessman who looks a lot like him. He takes up the corpse’s ID and slips into a netherworld of international intrigue and blurring identity with both his old life and his new life on his heels. Michelangelo Antonioni’s cinematic more »
Not as capital-”g” Great as Citizen Kane, but just as skilled and way more fun. Charlton Heston plays a Mexican (!) narcotics cop investigating a cross-border murder that drags him and his new gringa wife (Janet Leigh) into a world of trouble. Director Orson Welles not only conjures a memorable milieu of sleaze and corruption, h more »
An journey into the life and art of Venice's famous view-painter, no artist better captures the essence and allure of Venice than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. more »
It’s fitting somehow that Tim Burton made his best film to date about the world’s worst filmmaker. The inherent layers of stylization—a period setting, shot in black and white, amid the schlock cinema milieu of Ed Wood Jr.— subsume Burton's self-conscious peccadilloes, leaving a funny, sweet story of friendship and dreams anchor more »
Catherine Deneuve’s reserved bourgeois newlywed loves her handsome young husband, but doesn’t want to have sex with him. She’d rather fantasize about being whipped and dominated. Or maybe turn tricks with random strangers in the afternoon while he’s at work. It boggles the brain that Luis Bunüel made this film nearly 60 years ag more »
The film traces the journeys of the four members of the Stairway To Heaven rockers through the music scene of the 1960s and their meeting in the summer of 1968, culminating in 1970. more »
You probably know the catchphrase that spoils this ‘70s sci-fi staple, but behind it lies a not-as- kitschy-as-you’d-think screen dystopia. It’s 2022 (!) and the earth is hot and crowded. The poor scrape to survive and the rich get away with murder, or they will if a police detective played by Charlton Heston can be bought or th more »
Mothra is for the ladies. No, really, that was the idea behind Toho’s benevolent giant moth monster and her tiny twin spokesfairies. Her debut divides its time between world- building and a plot swiped from King Kong until, at last, the star finally unfurls her wings. One of the odder and more lovable entries in the kaiju sweeps more »
It’s no surprise almost everybody got "Jennifer’s Body" wrong on its initial release. As with Megan Fox’s title character, they made assumptions based on looks. Rather than a teen horror comedy with a heavy dose of sex, Karyn Kusama made a wicked-smart, funny/not-funny exploration of female friendships, in all their intimacy an more »
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger contributed to the war effort with this heartfelt and charming tribute to England, old and new. Three travelers (Dennis Price, Sheila Sim, and John Sweet) follow in the footsteps of Chaucer’s pilgrims en route to Canterbury during World War II only to end up waylaid by various light mysterie more »
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of the most underrated Japanese filmmakers of the last 30 years. Pulse’s eerie vision of a haunted internet still chills for all the reasons you might expect —specters materializing, creepy settings, uncanny sound design, and more. But it sticks with you because Kurosawa got that the ‘net can be a technol more »
It’s the circle of life, innit? You watched it as a kid, and now you bring your kids. Or you’re bringing your grandkids. Or you want to see it again yourself—no wonder, it’s great! Jeremy Irons gets the best songs, despite the fact that he can’t really sing, ha. Just make sure you see this one. That one with the CGI lions . . . more »
Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous names in art history, his image and his art are everywhere, yet few know the remarkable story of his rise to greatness. Young Picasso takes an in-depth look at the journey of Picasso’s life and traces his path to genius. more »
Though rooted in vintage tech like UHF broadcasting and videotape, Videodrome feels like the first 21st-century film. James Woods’ hustling TV programmer happens across what seems like the future of his prurient little channel: literal torture porn. But the signal unleashes hallucinations and sucks his character into a supremely more »
Retcon it all you like. This is the only truly great 'Star Wars' film, the only one that can exist without the others, the only one made without consideration for a galaxy- spanning intellectual property and shareholder value. And a powerful, inspirational piece of filmmaking it is, for all its clunky bits and post-release tinke more »
Meet Tiny, Rat, Dewayne, and a handful of other teenagers hanging on the streets of Seattle in the '80s. They panhandle, turn tricks, fight, dumpster dive, and talk tough. And then filmmaker Martin Bell gets them to talk about their futures, and they dream about the riches, cars, homes, and regular families slipping further from more »
Robert Zemeckis seized on nascent CGI tech to insert 40-year-old cartoon characters into an IRL period detective yarn with a plot cribbed from Chinatown. The passage of nearly 40 more years only intensifies the question of who was this supposed to be for? Fortunately, it still looks pretty good and the conspiracy against public more »
This version, ostensibly remade from unused footage, is meant to redeem the longtime cinema punchline from ignominy. But it’s not as if a film about the most notorious Roman emperor directed by a softcore auteur was likely to end up a tasteful bore. Caligula redux lacks the hardcore-porn inserts and tells a more coherent story b more »
The film that inspired a generation of the most chud-like male behavior imaginable has dated in some respects—sooo many CGI fly- throughs! But it remains as light on its feet as a flyweight, dancing and landing dark comedic jabs even as its testosterone-poisoned “philosophy” inspires eyerolls. Say what you will about Brad Pitt—h more »
The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history - millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with, they were scorned, penniless outsiders. 1874 was the year that changed everything. more »
The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this Renaissance giant? more »
