Reviews
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‘A House of Dynamite’ Review: Kathryn Bigelow’s Riveting Thriller Is a Nuclear Nightmare
Venice Film Festival: The director’s story of a potential missile launch aimed at the U.S. delineates the inner workings of the national security apparatus with a muscularity that is all her own
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‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: A Calm Dwayne Johnson Anchors Raw Martial Arts Drama
Venice Film Festival: Benny Safdie’s debut as a solo director has plenty of bloody fights, but it’s more interested in what comes after
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‘Late Fame’ Review: Willem Dafoe Shines as a New York Poet Grappling With Delayed Renown
Venice Film Festival: Kent Jones’ Soho farce is based on Arthur Schnitzler’s posthumous novella of the same name
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‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Is a Charismatic Prophet in Shaker Musical
Venice Film Festival: Mona Fastvold’s zealous historical music chronicles the rise of a religious leader in 18th century Manchester
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‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Jim Jarmusch Pays Tribute to Messy Families in Amusing Triptych
Venice Film Festival: Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits and Charlotte Rampling are among the actors who riff through an anthology of awkwardness
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‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ Review: Paul Dano Is the Only Quiet Thing in This Big Satire About Putin’s Rise
Venice Film Festival: Jude Law plays the Russian president in Olivier Assayas’ film, but Dano holds things together as a mysterious mastermind
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‘Calle Malaga’ Review: Spanish Legend Carmen Maura Charms Her Way Through Moroccan Crowd-Pleaser
Venice Film Festival: Writer-director Maryam Touzani takes a situation that could be milked for drama and outrage and treats it with lightness and charm
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‘Motor City’ Review: Shut Up, We’ve Got an Action Flick Goin’ On Here
Venice Film Festival: Director Potsy Ponciroli has set out to tell a bloody revenge story with (almost) no dialogue at all
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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
