Cinema Curator

TELLURIDE: We’re not sure we can purely put into words what Andrew Scott has accomplished with his portrayal of Ian Charleson in “Elsinore.” A new drama that finds Scott playing […]

TELLURIDE – It goes without saying that Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered one of the greatest writers in human history. “Crime and Punishment,” ‘The Brothers Karamazov,” and “The Idiot” are just […]

TELLURIDE – We are unabashed fans of Andrew Haigh. Whether it’s “Weekend,’ “All of Us Strangers,” or “45 Years,” we have often found his films emotionally nuanced and remarkably grounded. […]

TELLURIDE – There is a moment toward the end of Mike Leigh‘s latest gem, “Tender Loving Care,” when Amy (Kate O’Flynn) is crouched at the bedside of her ailing father. […]

In April 2025, lauded American writer-director Paul Schrader was accused of sexual assault by a former female assistant. She claimed the filmmaker trapped and forcibly kissed her in a hotel […]

It is hard to examine “Too Much Sugar” as a Robert Greene film because it isn’t exactly one. The opening credits make this very clear: the list of names that […]

A terrific mixture of the pathos of “The Banshees of Inisherin” and the dark comedic texture of “In Bruges,” “Wild Horse Nine” finds writer-director Martin McDonagh returning to an isolated […]

A movie with a title as provocative as “Bucking Fastard” should have a little more edge than what Werner Herzog delivers here. His episodic drama stars Kate Mara and Rooney […]

At first glance, “Mayday” appears almost aggressively familiar: a thinly drawn, “Top Gun”-inflected slice of 1980s nostalgia built around Ryan Reynolds doing his usual motormouth routine. But writers and directors […]

There are bad thrillers that gradually reveal their stupidity, and then there is “The Runner,” which starts with Gal Gadot jogging through London and spends roughly the next 90 minutes […]

If anyone missed the memo that we live in the information ecosystem that Rupert Murdoch built, the postscript montage at the end of “Ink” lays out exactly what havoc he […]

After spending the better part of a decade playing with some of the biggest toys in Hollywood, director Adam Wingard has apparently decided he’d like to get dirty again. With […]

The columnist Murray Kempton had a secret for getting a great story: Always go to the loser’s locker room. That was where the real drama was. This is why stories […]

Multiverse fatigue may have long since set in, but apparently no one told the creators of “Dark Matter”—and that’s mostly a good thing. Apple TV’s heady quantum-physics thriller returns for […]

Post-apocalyptic movies usually obsess over survival mechanics: where to find food, how to defend a compound, who to trust, and how quickly civilization collapses once resources disappear. Ridley Scott’s “The […]

Every so often, a film comes along that captures just the right amount of whimsy and playfulness to recall beloved family fantasies like “Hook” and “The NeverEnding Story,” among countless […]

There will always be something deliciously ironic about “Coyote Vs. Acme,” a movie about a little guy taking on an all-powerful corporation that was itself nearly erased by an all-powerful […]

The best superhero stories understand that powers are rarely as compelling as the damaged people entrusted with them. HBO’s “Lanterns” takes that idea seriously, grounding its cosmic mythology in a […]

Wry, clever, thoughtful, and deceptively light in its approach, “Late Fame” is a low-key movie about an exceedingly modest degree of fame. Even its title carries a gently sardonic edge: […]

If Steven Spielberg had to make “Jurassic Park” with the same budgetary and creative constraints that forced him to make “Jaws,” it might look something like David Robert Mitchell’s “The […]