Cinema Curator

To paraphrase a recent story, Matt Damon said that, outside of a small collaboration in “The Last Duel” (a film where they only share a handful of scenes), he and […]

That HBO followed up the miserablist fantasy epic, “Game of Thrones,” a pop culture phenomenon that it was, with the prequel series “House of the Dragon,” which manages the nigh-impossible […]

After an uneven start with the sometimes-haphazard and tonally chaotic “28 Years Later,” the virus-horror franchise snaps back into vicious form with the sequel “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” […]

As he often does in “Industry,” Eric Tao (Ken Leung) begins to offer a bit of world-weary wisdom to his protégé Harper Stern (My’hala) in the series’ season 4 premiere. […]

Prestige television seemingly doesn’t get any better than pairing an acclaimed filmmaker like William Oldroyd—2016’s “Lady Macbeth,” the film that launched Florence Pugh’s career—with heavyweight actors like Tessa Thompson (“Hedda”) […]

HBO Max’s thrilling medical drama “The Pitt” may be known for its emergency room gore, its urgent “someone’s on the verge of dying” intensity, its interpersonal rivalries, team-building camaraderie, and […]

Even though it has only happened a few times, it almost feels like tradition that the first official box office weekend of a new year delivers a Gerard Butler film. […]

A clinic in telling versus showing, there’s little left to the imagination in “Goodbye June” and even less that goes unsaid. A too-tidy narrative about a sensible middle-class family dealing […]

One viewing of “No More Time, “the debut from director Dalila Droege, is more than enough to pose a question: Can a strange, atmospheric film exist simply for the sake […]

Hollywood studios have spent the last two decades in an arms race to see who can best cash in on their intellectual property, and the box office points to one […]

Trust doesn’t come easily for legendary journalist Seymour Hersh, and with good reason: you don’t spend a lifetime dragging safely guarded government secrets into the daylight without learning that truth […]

Timothée Chalamet might currently be annoying the terminally online with his cocky bravado—the brash chutzpah, the not-so-subtle suggestion he’s destined for greatness and an Oscar looms in his near future—but […]

After doubting him at their own peril, the conventional Hollywood wisdom is now to never bet against writer/director James Cameron. Skeptics foretold doom for the filmmaker with the wildly expensive […]

“The Housemaid” is a messy movie that presents itself as a clean one. It’s got such a winking sensibility that clues viewers into how that small off-handed detail a character […]

One season in, and the consensus on “Fallout” remains clear: this is a video game adaptation done right. “Fallout” began life a console mainstay, with the first entry hitting shelves […]

From a thirty thousand foot view, a phrase used to describe taking in the big picture of a given project as opposed to focusing on the small details, Urška Djukić’s […]

It sure would be nice if there were someone like Emma Mackey’s Ella McCay. Someone who upholds rigorous ethical standards. Someone who disdains the performance of politics at the expense […]

There exists a quote: “You can take the dog out of a fight, but you can’t take the fight out of the dog.” A simple twist and we can, albeit […]

Going into a film, one might have some idea of what it is they’re about to take in. A trailer seen beforehand could offer a hint, perhaps a glimpse of […]

Writer-director David Freyne and co-writer Patrick Cunnane clearly did not listen to the lady in the radiator from “Eraserhead.” In the heaven of their film, “Eternity,” everything is far from […]