Michael Atkinson

Lucy Kerr’s camera follows a sprawling brood, zeroing in on ambiguous intimacies and scintillating visions.

Jake Paltrow uses Adolf Eichmann’s trial and execution to plumb Israel’s contradictions. 

If you liked ‘Poor Things,’ you might feel that director Yorgos Lanthimos has bait and switched you with his current triptych of tales.  

Director Chris Nash gives us a head-scratcher of a film that also explodes heads like water balloons.

Director Marco Bellocchio feasts on Papal skullduggery, but the meal could use more spice.  

The expected quotient of outcasts and weirdos stumble along America’s well-trod byways. 

Ethan Hawke’s earnest take on the writer could use less indulgence and more ice.

Writer, director, and often-nude star Joanna Arnow lets viewers decide what’s funny.

Director Theda Hammel doesn’t always nail the pacing, but banana-slip pratfalls keep things kicking. 

The 88-year-old director has become his own storytelling chatbot.