Cinema Curator

It’s probably not far-fetched to imagine that most people, if pressed, couldn’t tell you what cryptocurrency actually is, much less what it’s for. Future money? Fake money? Monopoly money for […]

A brutal two-hander that manages to rise above its obvious influences and cliches, Cal McMau’s directorial debut “Wasteman” stares deep into the dehumanizing aspects of prison culture. Acutely aware of […]

“Margo’s Got Money Troubles” has the kind of premise that, on paper, reads like Reddit mad libs gone rogue. A broke college dropout gets pregnant by her writing professor, has […]

Strangers chafe each other over standard issue oopsies every day of the week and twice on Sundays. This is, at once, the thesis, intention, and foible in the first season […]

A child’s-eye view of war often depends on distance — on what can be half-seen, half-misunderstood, and only slowly absorbed as history hardens into personal loss. German-Turkish film director and […]

The challenge for a critic reviewing a film like David Lowery’s ethereal pop star psychodrama “Mother Mary” boils down to a single question: which film to review? The script houses […]

Take your pick. When it comes to adrenaline-laced sports like BASE jumping and big-wall rock climbing, both carry severe, undeniable risk, where a small mistake can have deadly consequences, and […]

“Content is king,” “give the people what they want,” “abide by the algorithm”—those dead-eyed mantras of online culture are the broadside target of Daniel Goldhaber’s “Faces Of Death,” a painfully […]

In a perfect example of two things being true at once, it feels both like only yesterday and a lifetime ago that a film from 2013 called “Sharknado” reared its […]

It is almost impossible to watch Jonah Hill’s new comedy “Outcome,” a shockingly insufferable train wreck, without reading it against his own public image—the carefully curated veneer of which has […]

For a long time now, “Star Wars” has too often confused its mythology with meaning, mistaking callback lore and endless brand management for the darker, knottier moral drama that once […]

At first glance, the dual restoration/release of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1998 film “Serpent’s Path,” alongside the first true screening of his 2024 short film “Chime,” might seem a little too niche. […]

Genki Kawamura’s “Exit 8,” adapted from a video game developed by Kotake Create, is the rare film that succeeds by embracing rather than eschewing its roots in the medium. In […]

In case you hadn’t heard, “Hacks” is coming to an end. At least that’s what creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky have declared ahead of its fifth […]

Once upon a time, Garth Ennis exerted a net positive influence upon the comic book industry, in the happier days long before AMC adapted his masterpiece, “Preacher,” into a cartoony […]

When “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, first premiered in 2017, it felt like a bleak calling card of our time. Now, […]

When it comes to artificial intelligence, the average human being—or American, anyhow—is probably feeling one of three things: head-in-the-sand blissful ignorance, mild existential anxiety about what’s to come, or full-blown […]

Whether it’s fake self-harm for attention or the toxic narcissism exposed through the disorienting trials of accidental fame, the insatiable need for external validation—and the desperate, sweaty insecurity it reveals— […]

If you needed another bleak reminder that we’re living in a dystopian post-story, social-media-clip-driven, instant-cut, TikTok-pilled era of filmmaking, where IP is mined and exploited at all costs, look no […]

“Daredevil” has always been a difficult character to pin down on screen. For years, there’s been a version of the property that filmmakers and fans alike have chased since the […]