Turning Red (2022) | Transcript
01/07/2022
A 13-year-old girl named Meilin turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited.
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Crimes of the Future (2022) | Transcript
22/06/2022
As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. Accompanied by his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser showcases the metamorphosis of his organs. Meanwhile, a mysterious group tries to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) | Transcript
22/06/2022
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue | Review by Stanley Kauffmann
14/06/2022
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue is a series of ten films, each one slightly less than an hour long, made for Polish TV in 1988-1989
Hustle (2022) | Transcript
13/06/2022
After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team’s approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.
Father Stu (2022) | Transcript
31/05/2022
Follows the life of Father Stuart Long, a boxer-turned-priest who inspired countless people during his journey from self-destruction to redemption.
Barry Lyndon | Review by Michael Dempsey
26/05/2022
Barry Lyndon is utterly the opposite of the loose, improvised movies which are so popular with many critics these days. Every detail of it is calculated; the film is as formal as a minuet.
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) | Review by Stanley Kauffmann
26/05/2022
A chief trouble with Martin Scorsese’s new film is that it has to strain to be a Scorsese film. Certain graphic qualities have marked most of his work, and as with any director of personality and style, those qualities had become as natural to him as breathing. But in Bringing Out the Dead, the formerly natural seems forced, redemptive, almost salvaging.
The Straight Story (1999) | Review by Stanley Kauffmann
26/05/2022
Anyone ignorant of Lynch who sees The Straight Story will need an extra mite of patience to allow its beauty to unfold; others will be curious from the start about why this unconventional filmmaker chose this material, and that curiosity will speed up the unfolding.
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace | Review by Stanley Kauffmann
26/05/2022
This latest Star Wars has the same basic effect as the other three: the sense that it was made not only for children but for the belief in many adults that they are still kids at heart.
In Memoriam: Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) | by Stanley Kauffmann
26/05/2022
Eyes Wide Shut is a catastrophe—in both the popular sense and the classical sense of the end of a tragedy. Everything in Kubrick that had been worming through his career, through his ego, and through his extraordinary talent swells and devours this last film.
Top Gun (1986) | Review by Stanley Kauffmann
23/05/2022
Films like Top Gun bring out the pharisee in many of us. We deplore the ethos that these films promote at the same time that, somewhere deep in us, we’re glad that at least some people live by that ethos.
Wings of Desire (1987) | Review by Pauline Kael
23/05/2022
Wings of Desire constantly articulates the impossibility of finding any meaning in anything. At the same time, it’s a love-story message movie.
Top Gun (1986) | Review by Pauline Kael
23/05/2022
Top Gun is a recruiting poster that isn’t concerned with recruiting but with being a poster.
Morbius (2022) | Transcript
16/05/2022
Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.
The Lost City (2022) | Transcript
13/05/2022
A reclusive romance novelist on a book tour with her cover model gets swept up in a kidnapping attempt that lands them both in a cutthroat jungle adventure.
The Northman (2022) – Transcript
13/05/2022
From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s murder.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) | Transcript
05/05/2022
After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations.
The Bad Guys (2022) | Transcript
02/05/2022
When the infamous Bad Guys are finally caught after years of countless heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal to save them all from prison.
The Piano (1993) | Review by Stanley Kauffmann
27/04/2022
The Piano, garlanded with Cannes Festival prizes, is an overwrought, hollowly symbolic glob of glutinous nonsense
Uncharted (2022) | Transcript
27/04/2022
A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure never found” while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan’s long-lost brother.