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We’ve reached another year’s end, so get ready for all the limited releases and qualifying runs primed for Oscar consideration as guild votes start propping up their prospective favorites. All while most of you cross your fingers that you won’t have to wait too long for everything to finally open at a theater near you.…
Director Justin Kurzel’s films have disarmingly explored the ways ideological radicalization coupled with social exclusion can lead to great violence. His latest film, the police procedural The Order,” is the finest distillation of his ability to shade genre thrills with disturbing, real-world relevance. Based on the non-fiction title The Silent Brotherhood, the film is set…
“This is Absolutely Not the True Story of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.” The opening crawl of all six episodes of Prime Video’s “The Sticky” is meant to make clear that this stranger-than-fiction comedic thriller plays fast and loose with the truth. But it also draws a parallel to its most blatant inspiration, the…
After fearlessly interrogating man’s capacity for evil in Oscar-nominated documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer returns with The End, a bunker-bound musical set at the end of the world. Despite that unexpected logline, the core themes Oppenheimer grapples with in his work––i.e. the nature of absolution and the…
The long-awaited James Gunn & Peter Safran relaunch of the DC Universe has finally taken flight. Not with Gunn’s upcoming Superman movie, mind you, but with “Creature Commandos,” an animated series centered around a monster team going on globe-trotting missions to save the world. It may seem like a new version of Gunn’s “The Suicide…
The fight for Palestinian livelihood, repatriation, the Argentine gaucho community, a pair of England’s greatest directors, Chinese textile mills, a legendary artist’s final performance, the frontlines of the war on Ukraine––just a few of the subjects and stories this year’s documentaries brought us. With 2024 wrapping up, we’ve selected the non-fiction features that left us…
A very cool event is going to unfold at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica this weekend, including a Q&A hosted by our very own Chaz Ebert, alongside some very rare screenings from December 6-9. RescueFest features 4K restorations of 10 films that have been incredibly hard to find in the years since…
One of the few benefits of the awards race is Hollywood’s outpouring of materials associated with the contenders. Perhaps the biggest perk is the release of full scripts one is able to download legally, directly from the studios. The first batch is now available and we’ll be updating this post as more arrive over the…
With imagery quite literally conjured from the deepest bowels of darkness, it’s clear why Nosferatu has been on the mind of Robert Eggers since he saw F. W. Murnau’s silent classic at the impressionable age of nine. The director’s fourth feature is his most assured and accomplished, an impeccably crafted, knowingly humorous, and perhaps too-rigid…
With the release of Catherine Breillat’s effortlessly beautiful and scandalous “Last Summer,” the Unloved looks back at the paroxysmal end of Breillat’s second period as a filmmaker, after her abrasive 1970s output, and before her turn to fairy tales, which seemed to open her to a sensitivity she only hinted at in works as diverse as…
