Although he’s spent the last few years working in series television, director Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses, Baywatch) returns to films (albeit one on Netflix) with Back in Action, co-written with […]
Sometimes just getting to hang out with characters is more than enough. Case in point: the new comedy from first-time filmmaker and music video veteran Lawrence Lamont, One of Them […]
What do you call the horror equivalent of a one-joke movie? For now, let’s call it Wolf Man, the latest from writer/director Leigh Whannell, who has given us such choice […]
I’ve been aware of the existence of pop singer Robbie Williams for about as long as he’s had a successful solo career and released his first album in 1997, after […]
Brady Corbet’s (Vox Lux) The Brutalist was recently named winner of the Golden Globe for Best Picture—Drama, Best Director, and Best Actor. The film is about a fictional Hungarian architect, […]
Pedro Almodóvar. Tilda Swinton. Julianne Moore. Three names, three reasons to see a film—zero additional context needed. But if you insist… Best known for his work in Spanish (2019’s Pain […]
Here’s the deal: this documentary about the much-celebrated songwriter Diane Warren is a terrific work about one of the most successful creators in pop music. We get great stories about […]
Best known for her role in the 1990s television drama Baywatch (and plenty of tabloid headlines of the time, as well), Pamela Anderson is having a resurgence of sorts. That’s […]
Director and cinematographer RaMell Ross first came onto my radar as the director behind the exquisite Oscar-nominated 2018 documentary feature Hale County This Morning, This Evening. But it’s his latest […]
2024 has been a good year for women on screen. Plenty of meaty, fully realized roles found their way to cinemas in the last 12 months, from Demi Moore in […]
2024 is finally over, so it’s time to reveal my Best Narrative Films of the Year list. As always, I was able to squeeze in about a dozen additional films […]
As I do every year, I separate documentaries into their own Best of the Year list, not because I feel they should be judged any differently than narrative films, but […]