Review: Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, with Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, transforms Shakespeare’s grief into powerful cinema. An Oscar contender.
“The Housemaid” (2025): Seyfried shines in Feig’s glossy thriller about abuse, class, and female revenge. Pulpy, twisty, uneven—but gripping.
Beautiful locations, missing chemistry. We review Netflix’s People We Meet on Vacation and what got lost adapting Emily Henry’s bestselling novel.
Carrey and Winslet deliver career-best performances in a film that refuses the false comfort Hollywood romances usually provide.
Russell Crowe gives one of the most commanding performances of his career, which is precisely the problem. He makes Göring fascinating in ways that feel genuinely dangerous.
In Avatar: Fire and Ash, Cameron shatters his ecological utopia with the Mangkwan—traumatized Na’vi who embraced fire over faith.
Jarmusch has made a film about the distance between people who love each other, and somehow that distance feels like the closest thing to intimacy we’ll get.
Vince Gilligan’s new series wants to celebrate the individual against conformity, yet it ends up revealing the unbearable heaviness of the Western Ego.
The finale of ‘The Chair Company’ arrives with the kind of manic desperation that makes you wonder if Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin have been slowly poisoning us all season, waiting to pull the rug out.
Is Bugonia’s ending real or a dream? This Yorgos Lanthimos film dodges its own themes with an alien reveal that undermines everything that came before.
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a gorgeous betrayal of Shelley’s novel—a film that mistakes sympathy for depth and strips the monster of his moral agency.
The FDA bans Red Dye No. 3 in food and drugs after decades of industry-backed delays, exposing how profit often outweighs public health in the U.S.
Squid Game 2, available on Netflix from December 26, seems to have turned anticipation into disappointment.
Sunglasses in films are a hallmark of villains, symbolizing mystery, power, and glamour. Skillfully used, they enhance storytelling and define memorable characters.
Trump’s persistence underscores a decaying society, revealing the dark appeal of a faltering empire. Harris may be the closing chapter he can’t escape.
Sen. John Kennedy’s hateful questioning of Maya Berry in a hate crimes hearing exposed his Islamophobia, bullying tactics, and disregard for truth and decency.
Within the endearing narrative of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Mr. Henry F. Potter emerges as a symbol of both dominance and solitude, his existence in stark contrast to the film’s hero, George Bailey
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