Jake Gyllenhaal is used to exhaustion. During his research for the LAPD drama End of Watch, he spent five months patrolling the streets with... More >>
This essay contains a spoiler or two for John Wick. There's too much violence in movies today -- too much of the wrong kind, though if you asked... More >>
When we first meet the title character in Olive Kitteridge, she considers the revolver in her hands and looks up at the cloudless sky above the... More >>
There's nothing new, exactly, in Gabriella Kessler and Jean-Loïc Portron's despairing but beautiful Braddock America, but the sad truths it... More >>
Fire figures prominently in the passionate, furious films of Derek Jarman: the conflagrations that consume London streets in Jubilee (1978), the... More >>
How can it cost $100,000 to get to some 30,000 votes — in the poorest district of a town so broke its city hall got foreclosed on? That's... More >>
Easily the most inspired film-geek retro idea to land in New York since Anthology's one-eyed-auteur series in 2009, this Halloween-angled suite... More >>
With the first two documentaries in her post–9-11 trilogy -- My Country, My Country, a portrait of Iraq under American occupation, and The... More >>
Cary Elwes hasn't changed much in the 27 years since filming The Princess Bride. He's still got a mess of blond hair and "eyes like the sea after... More >>
What happened to the Korean New Wave? Suitably, one could say, for a culture of Konglish and PSY and the Mickey-Dee's Bulgogi Burger, it quickly... More >>
When we published this list of our favorite modern vampire movies (1979 to the present, to be specific), we encountered a number of emails of and... More >>
Among the fascinating bastards born when the French New Wave and the nouveau roman swapped precious fluids, the films of novelist Marguerite... More >>
A kid who's spent formative years in an obscure cult, rehab, juvenile detention, and, ultimately, prison, isn't likely to grow up to... More >>
Every generation tells the Batman story it wants to hear. In Fox's Gotham, the universe's most malleable superhero is reduced to a spoiled little... More >>
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