Cinema Curator

“This is nothing like ‘Avatar!’” screams Kathy Najimy’s Dr. Sam after hearing the premise of Pixar’s “Hoppers” repeated back to her. This biology professor has invented technology that allows humans […]

“If people could put rainbows in zoos, they’d do it,” quips the anthropomorphic stuffed tiger of “Calvin and Hobbes” in one of the bygone daily comic strip’s most famous panels. […]

When does wryly commenting on the clichés of a movie genre—the slasher film—cease to be clever and engaging? Somewhere around the point where the bit becomes the brand, and the […]

Even if he had never accomplished anything else (and he has!), Andrew Kevin Walker will always be remembered as the screenwriter behind David Fincher’s “Se7en,” the most iconic serial killer […]

In many ways, it could be seen as a surprise. When Dan Fogelman, showrunner behind “This Is Us,” unveiled his latest small-screen effort, “Paradise,” last year, it was likely safe […]

After the success of her back-to-back performances in Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” and Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” in 2023, leading German actress Sandra Hüller has firmly […]

For a solid decade, starting in the late 2000s with Disney’s charming fairytale comedy “Enchanted” all the way to Denis Villeneuve’s melancholy sci-fi “Arrival,” it was easy to trust Amy […]

Glen Powell loves a disguise. From his headlining gig under heavy makeup on TV’s “Chad Powers” to going incognito mode in films like “The Running Man,” the ascendant actor elevates […]

Some may say it’s unwarranted to demand complete contextual translatability from cinema, even if it is the international medium par excellence. But isn’t its audio-visual nature what ensures worldwide circulation […]

If Anthony Chen were any more indebted to Edward Yang, the director’s latest film, “We Are All Strangers,” might have to be titled “Singapore Story” after the Taiwanese New Wave […]

The very first glimpse of Karim Aïnouz’s long-gestating “Rosebush Pruning” is a bold title card in bright red and yellow. The two colors guide the story’s visual language, quietly and […]

With their chilling rape-revenge debut “Violation,” the filmmaking duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli set a new precedent for visceral, female-fronted horror. Their sophomore feature “Honey Bunch” — a competitor […]

“Crime 101,” the new Amazon MGM L.A. noir drama, has its heart in the right place, but as bruised criminals with a heart of gold know, intentions are never enough. […]

During any given commercial break of 2026’s Super Bowl, viewers likely got some message from an established tech giant or a fresh-faced startup that the AI era had arrived—and its […]

The recurring knock on filmmaker Emerald Fennell (“Saltburn,” “Promising Young Woman”), in some circles at least, is that she is all vibes: a stylist with a mean streak and no […]

If there’s one IP that, sadly, seems to lack the level of cultural prominence it did a century prior, pointing a finger at the Looney Tunes franchise makes some sense, […]

The disparity between the haves and have-nots has been a cinematic narrative since the silent era. The past decade demonstrated how universal these strains on Western societies are from all […]

How do you follow up that rarest of feats: a hit streaming docuseries that isn’t true crime? That’s the question on the mind of filmmaker John Wilson at the start […]

“Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild],” the thoughtful and quietly radical new documentary from Ojibwe filmmakers Adam and Zack Khalil, which recently won the NEXT Audience Award at Sundance, is about a great many […]

Moshe Rosenthal’s second feature, “Tell Me Everything,” billed by Sundance as a drama about a boy reckoning with a “shattering truth” about his father (Assi Cohen) at the height of […]