So, a novel? A memoir? A chapbook? This is a book of poetry, with a plain tomato soup of a story within it. A can of Campbell’s can be just the thing on a cold day. But The Copywriter is not a ...
Add to those inarguably arresting sequences is the unique camera work. In the entire film, the camera neither tilts nor pans.
None of this is to say that the film doesn’t have its charms and curious attractions. Songwriter and musician Dave Stewart ...
It was the culmination of years of eroding journalistic standards and executives bending the knee to stay in Trump’s good ...
While not without its flaws, We Shall Not Be Moved (No nos moverán) is a great movie that does a magnificent job of blending comedy with drama. Mexico submitted it for Best International Film at the ...
We have always liked to think that comedy is secretly noble. Even when the jokes are crude or petty or plain bad, we cling to the idea that somewhere underneath the punchline is a tiny act of ...
Dead Man’s Wire seems the perfect picture for a United States where trust in core institutions is fading and a significant number of people viewed Luigi Mangione as a righteous vigilante. In case you ...
“Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.” That quote by Andre Breton, the author of the Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924, turned a good number of ...
Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent explores life under the watchful eyes of dictatorship. The film follows Armando Serranado (Wagner Moura), a former professor ...
The predawn U.S. military operation that spirited Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of Venezuela and into U.S. custody marks a watershed in hemispheric politics. In an operation that lasted just over ...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was an Oscar-winning screenwriter as well as a prolific author of novels and short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker. Since her death in 2013, two collections have ...
Disney’s track record with sequels isn’t great, but it made sense to make Zootopia 2, considering how successful the first one was. This sequel does a good job of juggling different themes and tropes ...