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Michael Atkinson

FILM

Review: Mendaciously Tantalizing, ‘You Can See Everything’ Devolves Into Metafictional Sludge

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s take on Elizabeth Holmes’s Theranos fraud offers truth as real as reality TV.

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FILM

Review: The Drama in Lance Oppenheim’s ‘Primetime’ Docudrama Barely Rises to Documentary Level

In the aughts, “To Catch a Predator” delivered a sordid stew of sting operations and sanctimony, but a new retelling is thin gruel.

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FILM

Review: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Slashes a Genre With Wit and Mint Details

Jane Schoenbrun’s inspired new film gets meta about a Final Girl now too old for her franchise, even as she lives within it.

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FILM

Review: Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Lands Viewers in Cinema Purgatory

The auteur of the “Pusher” trilogy can no longer find his way through the dry-ice fog of his puerile obsessions.

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FILM

Review: ‘Rose of Nevada’ Time Travels Through the Desolation of Britain’s Working Class

Writer/director Mark Jenkin employs old-school techniques to capture the grit and brine of a magical voyage.

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FILM

Review: Kane Parsons’ ‘Backrooms’ Explores the Evil Architecture of Banality

The director goes places AI could never think of.

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FILM

Review: ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ is Not Really a Mummy Movie, But Blumhouse Couldn’t Care Less

You may not know who the name-checked auteur is, but everything else in this ersatz sarcophagus saga is as familiar as horror-flick puke.

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SEVEN DECADES

When the Pentagon Screened ‘The Battle of Algiers’

In 2003, the U.S. was mired in the Iraq War and the Voice revisited a film that has long been a cautionary tale for empires everywhere.

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FILM

‘Two Prosecutors’ Finds Flesh Crushed and Lives Smothered Under Stalin’s Terminal Bureaucracy

Ukrainian writer/director Sergei Loznitsa’s life's work is calling out fascists, past and present.

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FILM

‘Redux Redux’ Finds Fresh Genre Pleasures Along Timeworn Sci-Fi Paths

The McManus brothers’ latest revels in B-movie pulp while aiming higher.

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