The French film school La Fémis, which accepts only around 1 percent of applicants to its directing program, has a…
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The characters of the wildly prolific and consistent South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo are awkward guests in…
In Nancy Meyers’ 2000 hit What Women Want, Mel Gibson plays an alpha-dog ad executive who gains the power to read…
A crashed cargo plane sits on a sheet of snow, one wing twisted, nose blackened by an engine fire. Some distance away,…
Dresden, in the mid-1930s. A precocious little boy and his beautiful young aunt follow a tour through an exhibit of…
Entering into a robust fraternity of cinematic triumphs that includes such highlights as Gotti and Bucky Larson: Born To…
The Kid Who Would Be King, the English writer-director Joe Cornish’s family-friendly take on the King Arthur legend,…
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The Intouchables, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s monster hit about the friendship between a quadriplegic white…
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Asking someone to put together a list of the year’s best films is a good way to get an insight into who they are. For…
The 50 best special effects in all of cinema. Contemporary feminism explored through Claws and Handmaid’s Tale. A…
Adam McKay’s Vice opens in 1963 in Casper, Wyoming, as the young, puffy, and whoopingly drunk Dick Cheney (Christian…
Hope springs eternal at The A.V. Club, at least when it comes to pop culture. The environment may be screwed, democracy…
Anyone who read comics in the ’90s probably remembers Peter David’s mean, bearded Aquaman, a rejoinder to the Filmation…
Let’s be reasonable: No one was expecting cinema gold from an August release in which Jason Statham fights a big…
Although it’s more faithful to the characters of The Jungle Book than any of the Disney adaptations, Andy Serkis’…
The retro-psycho Thirst Street brought the prolific Nathan Silver within spitting distance of the indie mainstream (in…
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