Cinema Curator

It begins in the grass. Rather than showcasing some stunning threads or sweeping scenery, Georgia Oakley starts her spin on Jane Austen’s classic novel “Sense and Sensibility” at ground level […]

There’s something faintly absurd about Hollywood finally having the technology to make the movies it couldn’t pull off in the 1980s and ’90s, only to discover nobody quite knows how […]

The benefit of “The Diplomat” and its habit of ending season finales with bombshell revelations is that each new season finds Ambassador Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) in an even stickier […]

Like the opposing ocean tides, forces that both contrast and complement each other, 20th Century Studios’ “Whalefall” is one compelling movie with two powerful narratives. The first is the one […]

There’s a cruel irony at the heart of “VisionQuest,” the third and final chapter in Marvel’s “WandaVision” trilogy. At its best, the saga of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and the […]

No actor working in television today has a smile deadlier than Linda Cardellini’s, which, at least on paper, suits her well for roles where she’s required to kill people. Who […]

If any term defines Brad Bird’s style, it’s retrofuturism. The aesthetic carries an inherent contradiction: it tries to harmonize two disparate periods into a coherent fantasy. With his decades-gestating passion […]

Ten years after Ava DuVernay used “13th” to trace the ugly afterlife of slavery through America’s deeply inequitable criminal justice system, she returns to the Constitution and similarly incendiary terrain […]

“A Prayer for the Dying,” director Dara Van Dusen’s new film, is about as far from the traditional Westerns of Clint Eastwood—or even something as playful as “Back to the Future Part […]

Witnessing can be a profoundly quiet act of love. There’s something moving about watching a mother watch her daughter work, especially when that daughter is Sofia Coppola, undertaking the most […]

As the years continue to pass, it must be increasingly, maddeningly difficult to create a wholly original take on the genre that is the romantic comedy; whether one changes the […]

It’s probably just a coincidence, but Netflix recently released “The Last House,” a baffling film about a family unable to leave their Pacific Northwest home for vaguely supernatural reasons, which […]

Still shaggy, baggy, and amiable, “The Lowdown” returns with another conspiracy to unravel and another thread that Lee Raybon cannot leave alone. Creator, writer, and director Sterlin Harjo adds two […]

Ben Affleck has long gravitated toward desperate men backed into corners, whether it’s the bank robber struggling to escape his criminal past in “The Town,” the conflicted gangster navigating a […]

He’ll always have the walk-and-talk, “A Few Good Men,” “The West Wing,” and, depending on which elements of the screenplay are his, “Moneyball,” but four-time Oscar-nominated writer-turned-director Aaron Sorkin has […]

A fascinating slipperiness runs through Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial,” an entertaining, funny, occasionally unsettling, and increasingly uneven account of the rise of OpenAI and the spectacular 2023 boardroom coup that briefly […]

Perhaps it speaks to a certain lack of human self-awareness that we have clichés about the impossibility of herding cats and other unruly animals, but no equally familiar idiom for […]

There’s nothing quite like the evocative, ephemeral, almost unconscious way music triggers and unlocks memory—or the strange emotional distance it can travel in an instant. A melody, a few transportive […]

Takashi Yamazaki stole hearts worldwide in 2023 with “Godzilla Minus One,” which went on to take the Oscars by storm, earning the franchise its first nomination and win for Best […]

There’s something almost comically disproportionate about “Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall.” The legendary venue is enormous, Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most celebrated American filmmakers alive, and then […]