Crude Oil
Every show deserves some time to find itself and its audience. The first season of Paramount+’s Landman was a polished primetime drama that didn’t need...
Avatar: Flame War
Avatar: Fire and Ash opens with a filmed statement by James Cameron and his actors warning against the dangers of artificial intelligence taking over the...
Housemaid: A Room of One’s Own
The Housemaid is not a remake of the classic 1960 South Korean film by that name, which has been remade a bunch of times...
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...
