One of the great pleasures of seeing a new film from a director who has done good, distinctive work over many decades is the comforting feel...

The new Olivier Assayas film, Wasp Network , now on Netflix, isn’t one of his better works. It’s oddly paced, and sometimes inscrutable, i...

I’d love an all-star murder mystery, which makes it hurt all the worse that Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express isn’t a go...

You have to be a smart filmmaker to make something so gloriously dumb. Fifteen years after directing, co-writing, and starring in...

A murky drug war thriller, The Counselor keeps its focus on the people in the middle. This isn’t a story of drug lords and D.E.A...

To Rome with Love , Woody Allen’s forty-third film, is far too slight to hate outright. It’s a light, whimsical concoction made up of vari...

In 2003, when Walt Disney Pictures and producer Jerry Bruckheimer released Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the B...

I adore the films of Pedro Almodóvar. Aside from making a handful of justifiable masterpieces and earning his spot as one of the major...