From the outset, director Gaspar Noé prepares his audience for a meditation on the agonies of art-making
May 12, 2022
Creeping underneath the surface eccentricities are anxious, philosophically loaded questions about compassion, individuality, and the nasty, brutish shortness of life
April 21, 2022
The story, while based on an actual 8th-century prophet, functions metaphorically as a picture of God’s grace toward a sinful, wayward people
January 25, 2022
In a bit of Coen-esque mischief, there is nary a Scottish actor among the principals
January 19, 2022
As a filmmaker, Sorrentino isn’t a mystic like Terrence Malick, nor is he a blasphemer or a crank
December 28, 2021
The elegantly suspenseful scenario is put together with the care and beauty of a spider’s web
December 22, 2021
Family dramas have consistently proved to be reliable crowd-pleasers, especially when set against the backdrop of some kind of national conflict
November 28, 2021
Movies about the creative process are notoriously difficult to pull off
November 8, 2021
The real star is the island, with its blasted heaths and blinding beaches
October 18, 2021
The spiritually arid universe that cinema currently inhabits is likely to receive ‘The Card Counter’ as something fresh: an intellectually serious work by a seriously intellectual filmmaker
October 4, 2021