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In 2025’s record-breaking animated epic Ne Zha II, writer/director Yu Yang 杨宇 (credited as Jiaozi 饺子) presents loud, bright, unbelievable artistic direction with a crew three times that of its predecessor, giving intricate visual details to every element on the screen.
Read MoreFrom social media stalking to uninvited home visits, Lurker explores the consequences a budding singer faces when letting, unbeknownst to him, a stan into his inner circle.
Read MoreAs a star vehicle, The Smashing Machine contains an inherent contradiction: we must see Dwayne Johnson transform, but must also always be aware that we’re watching Dwayne Johnson.
Read MoreThe Lost Bus is everything you can want from a movie like this; great acting, heroes to root for, a story that never loses speed (even when the bus breaks down), and a broader message about how man-made climate change is capable of destroying the communities we love.
Read MoreHelmed by Saoirse Ronan as the teacher who takes matters into her own hands, Bad Apples takes a satirical bite out of education.
Read MoreThough buoyed by strong performances and a sustained sense of tension, Aneil Karia’s hollowed-out adaptation struggles under the weight of its legacy.
Read MoreJoachim Trier’s latest is a success in creating an intergenerational story of art and personal history.
Read MoreBy positioning Videoheaven as both a cinematic essay and an archive, Alex Ross Perry ensures that the memory of video stores won’t just fade into nostalgia, but remain available for future generations to discover.
Read MoreHim follows Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers), a generational talent in college football who is so unbelievably hyped up by the entire sports-watching community that even before the NFL combine, he is expected to easily become one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
Read MoreNobody 2, the sequel to 2021’s Bob Odenkirk-plays-a-sadsack-who-gets-his-groove-back-by-resurrecting-his-abilities-as-a-master-assassin picture Nobody is an amiable, brisk goof with a game cast and some creative action.
Read MoreI’ll rip the band aid off early; The Conjuring: Last Rites is a bad, flaccid film that clocks in at an unholy 137 minutes. While the poor quality is baked into the final product (unenthusiastic direction, boring script), the badness is even worse when compared to what came previously.
Read MoreTo put it cattily, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey feels like Everything Everywhere All at Once if it were made by capital T capital K Theater Kids as opposed to capital I capital K Internet Kids.
Read MoreOver a mild weekend in the middle of August, the Austin Film Society hosted a four-day retrospective on the globally renowned art cinema director Tsai Ming-liang.
Read MoreThose with pretensions to auteur status must announce themselves, they must Hold Court. Schlesinger doesn't need to. He needn't bother himself with vulgar displays of power.
Read MoreOn the shores of Club Med, the possibilities of love are as endless as the sea itself. In the second two films of the series, Lina Wertmüller’s Swept Away and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt, we see love’s demise as irreconcilable differences surface in the tumultuous throes of passion.
Read MoreFrancis Lawrence has thoroughly demonstrated that despite The Long Walk being over four decades late to the party inspired by its legacy, a thoughtful approach to a book adaptation is always the best way to make sure the soul of that book survives onto the screen. I only wish that this thoughtfulness had been infused into all of the movie instead of most of it.
Read MoreWith the summer coming to an end and temperatures coming down, fall is officially on the horizon. While many people are preparing for football season, us cinephiles are preparing for a different season: the fall film festivals.
Read MoreWhat was pitched to, former NFL linebacker, Brian Bosworth as a sincere and light-hearted action flick quickly turned into a badass biker gang epic that’s just as fun as it sounds.
Read MoreNobuhiko Obayashi, best known for his cult debut House (1977), built his reputation on the first version of chaos: a pop-art, kaleidoscopic heavy, absurdist horror-comedy that feels like cinema’s version of shedding.
Read MoreA strange and unlikely entry in the pseudo-genre of Action Sequels Better Than The Originals, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is a marvel of brutal action choreography visualized with an inky layer of paranoia thriller style.
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