Reviews
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‘Hamlet’ Review: Riz Ahmed Is a Not-Very-Melancholy Dane in Revved-Up Adaptation
Telluride Film Festival: Director Aneil Karia’s adaptation is a visceral, streamlined and furious journey through the text, leaving a lot out and speeding up what’s left
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‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Passion Project Is Monstrously Moving
Venice Film Festival: The director hijacks the flagship story of the horror genre and turns it into a stunning tale of forgiveness
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‘Below the Clouds’ Review: Italian Documentary Explores Gorgeous, Haunted City of Naples
Venice Film Festival: Gianfranco’s doc is a tone poem paying tribute to a region that is suffused with beauty in the shadow of enormous loss
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‘Broken English’ Review: Marianne Faithfull Gets a Dark, Complicated Documentary
Venice Film Festival: The film from Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth s part documentary, part art project, part philosophical treatise, part celebration and part provocation
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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Is This the Anti-‘Bohemian Rhapsody?’
Telluride Film Festival: Scott Cooper’s film, starring Jeremy Allen White, is a bracing and moving antidote to beefed-up, heavily fictionalized rock biopics
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‘Highway 99 a double album’ Review: Ethan Hawke Throws a Long Party for Merle Haggard
Telluride Film Festival: Hawke’s three-hour documentary features more than two dozen performances of Haggard’s songs by Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash and more
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‘No Other Choice’ Review: Park Chan-wook’s Black Comedy Is Really Black and Really Comic
Venice Film Festival: The Korean director’s take on unemployment turns downright homicidal
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‘After the Hunt’ Review: Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri Face Off in Hot-Button Campus Drama
Venice Film Festival: Luca Guadagnino uses a formidable array of actors to explore woke culture in a twisty, stylish way
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‘Cover-Up’ Review: Seymour Hersh Documentary Makes the Journalist Both the Subject and the Source
Venice Film Festival: From My Lai and Abu Ghraib to Watergate and Nixon, filmmakers Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus praise and challenge the surly investigator
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‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Review: Sebiye Behtiyar Captivates in Bing Liu’s Quietly Enormous Immigrant Love Story
Her breakout performance anchors Liu’s first narrative feature following his 2018 documentary “Minding the Gap”
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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Review: Peter Dinklage Crushes It While Crushing Heads
Macon Blair’s stylishly scuzzy reboot of the cult-classic, ultraviolent superhero should never have been shelved
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‘Jay Kelly’ Review: George Clooney Is Damn Good at Playing a Pampered Movie Star
Venice Film Festival: And Noah Baumbach is back to nailing that tricky balance with a film that moves like a comedy but has a lot on its mind
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‘Bugonia’ Review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons Sure Love Going Crazy for Yorgos Lanthimos
Venice Film Festival: The Greek director tackles conspiracy theories in another wacky extravaganza, even if it isn’t quite as satisfying as “Poor Things” or “The Lobster”
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‘Megadoc’ Review: Warts-and-All Doc Reveals How Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Became a Mega-flop-olis
Venice Film Festival: The behind-the-scenes film about Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million dream project celebrates artistic risk, without pretending it paid off
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‘Task’ Review: Mark Ruffalo Delivers One of His Best Performances in HBO Crime Drama
There’s plenty to celebrate in Brad Ingelsby’s follow-up to “Mare of Easttown,” even if the story trips over familiar genre tropes
