Ella McCay: I’m Not With Her
It didn’t take long. We weren’t a minute into Ella McCay when the onscreen narrator (Julie Kavner) tells us about the title character, “I’m...
Scarlet for Me, Scarlet for You
Remember my holiday movie preview last week, where I said that Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet wasn’t likely to hit our theaters until February? Yeah, never...
Hamnet: About a Boy
These are the facts: William Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet. The boy died of bubonic plague at the age of 11. Shortly after...
Merrily We Roll Along: Good Thing Going
Richard Linklater is currently filming his own version of Merrily We Roll Along with Paul Mescal, Ben Platt, and Beanie Feldstein. He’s doing it...
Sentimental Value: Father-Daughter Act
Ask most film scholars to name a great Swedish director, and they’ll say Ingmar Bergman. Ask them for a great Finnish director, and they’ll...
Wake Up Dead Man: Murder on the Church Floor
I don’t know whether to call Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery a Christian film. It’s about Christianity, at any rate. We...
Eternity: Good Places
In 1998, the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda made a highly atypical work for him called After Life. Depicting life after death as a Buddhist...
Wicked: Dark Green
When I reviewed the first Wicked movie, I led off by wondering why the Broadway musical had been split into two parts for the...
Running Man: Ben on the Run
Would it be sacrilegious if I said that the new version of The Running Man is a better movie than One Battle After Another?...
Predator: Killing Kinds
While Dan Trachtenberg has now directed three movies in the Predator series, Predator: Badlands is the first one that you’ll be able to see...
