film reviews
'The White Lotus' Season 2 Can't Rework Its Winning Formula
Created by Mike White
PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2022
The first season of HBO's The White Lotus — created, written and directed by Mike White — repeatedly circled around the theme of animalisti...
Resolution
Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022
With creative young filmmakers like Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead proving that there's plenty of fertile soil left in the genre, there's...
Guillermo del Toro's 'Cabinet of Curiosities' Grounds Its Ghost Stories in Real-Life Horrors
Created by Guillermo del Toro
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022
Centuries ago, when only a handful of individuals set sail around the world, explorers and imposters alike would display their treasures fo...
'The Lair' Retreads Well-Worn Territory
Directed by Neil Marshall
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2022
With its tongue firmly placed in its cheek, Neil Marshall's The Lair is the established action-horror director returning to familiar territ...
'Call Jane' Is a Well-Acted Introduction to Reproductive Rights
Directed by Phyllis Nagy
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022
Call Jane details an underground abortion service in Chicago that existed from 1969 to 1973, when the procedure was illegal in most of the...
'Decision to Leave' Is Wonderfully Excessive
Directed by Park Chan-wook
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022
Beginning with the image of a man splayed out at the bottom of a mountain, Decision to Leave wastes no time. Although it initially appears...
'The Banshees of Inisherin' Takes the Wit of 'In Bruges' to Even Darker Places
Directed by Martin McDonagh
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022
The first 30 minutes or so of The Banshees of Inisherin recall the hilarious banter of Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson's...
'Aftersun' Is the Bittersweet Slow Burn of the Year
Directed by Charlotte Wells
PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2022
In the first moments of Aftersun, the understated debut feature from writer and director Charlotte Wells, we look into the past through the...