'Eternals': A Marvel movie for everyone who complains about Marvel movies
Indie director Chloe Zhao's influence is all over the new Marvel outing, a marked departure from the familiar MCU formula.
Movie Reviews
In 'Last Night In Soho,' Edgar Wright Goes Wrong
Edgar Wright delivers a technically proficient but punishingly contrived genre mashup involving romance, time travel, murder, sex work and nostalgia.
Movie Review: 'The Harder They Fall'
Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King and Zazie Beetz star in Jeumes Samuel's western, which has a fictional story, but is based on real people.
Sci-Fi epic 'Dune' is an immersive but incomplete experience
Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel is undeniably staggering. But his Dune also feels rudimentary, as if he's managed his source material without fully mastering it.
Review: 'Dune' may be on HBO Max, but it's one film you want to see on a big screen
Denis Villeneuve's Dune — based on Frank Herbert's bestselling sci-fi novel — arrives in cinemas and on home screens starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya.
'The French Dispatch' is a love letter to 'The New Yorker' — and to love itself
Wes Anderson's meticulously-constructed tenth feature adopts the format of a New Yorker-like Sunday magazine supplement to tell three very different, but equally idiosyncratic, love stories.
Velvet Underground documentary gets to the heart of the band's radical magic
Todd Haynes' inventive, immersive movie is full of interesting ideas. The Velvet Underground neatly sidesteps the usual rock-doc banalities as it plunges us into the Velvets and their world.
'The Last Duel' was inspired by a real trial by combat in medieval France
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to film critic Kenneth Turan about The Last Duel, directed by Ridley Scott. The story takes place in 14th century France, based on true events about a trial by combat.
'Dune': A sweeping, spectacular spice-opera — half of one, anyway
Denis Villeneuve's take on Frank Herbert's novel of galactic intrigue and revolution manages to be both epic and introspective, though it doles out its story with gravid deliberateness.
The joys of surprising yourself with 'The Last Duel' ... and 'Succession'
There's a kind of satisfaction that comes from something living up to your expectations. But there's a different kind of pleasure that only being surprised by your own reactions can bring.