Paul Thomas Anderson has spent the better part of three decades burrowing into the American soul—charting its boom-and-bust appetites, its bruised dreams, its restless need to reinvent itself.

The Naked Gun is stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. It’s a film so dedicated to tripping over its own shoelaces that you start to admire the sheer athleticism of

There’s an easy pitch to Celine Song’s latest film Materialists: imagine a contemporary New York screwball romance, part Working Girl hustle, part When Harry Met Sally walk-and-talk. Lucy

Throughout every onscreen incarnation of the Man of Steel, there’s a rhythm we’ve come to expect. Superman discovers his powers. He hides in plain sight as Clark Kent.

The short feature Izidor, by director David Kabbe, plays like a sort of fairy tale in the modern age. There are ruthless villains, a child in absolute distress,

In today’s society of perpetual connection and communication, the contact with reality should be the rule, right? Everybody has access to talking, reacting, liking, and yes, communicating with

Hold Me, Softly isn’t a movie that will change your life. It stays inside its formulaic genre of romance with the usual narrative structure. A girl and boy

A simple mistake can change everything — from a misplaced comma in a letter to a typo in a prescription. That’s exactly the kind of trouble Jace runs

Bound, the thriller drama by Isaac Hirotsu Woofter, is an independent movie that doesn’t look like an independent movie. From the score to the cinematography, everything in Woofter’s

Not always, movies will make you think. Some of them are designed to raise some questions, but you’re not obligated to start some discourse with a large part

The Bad Patriots is not a bad documentary. Although I failed to connect with it, I can see where it comes from and what its director is trying

The first thing that comes to mind with Harley Wallen‘s Final Recovery is that the crew behind productions like Ash & Bone and Beneath Us All have learned

The Zebra and the Bear is one of many documentaries in which a family opens up and shares with the world their improbable ordeal. It’s not that the

Dating apps and wireless file sharing were supposed to make life easier. Instead, they’ve become perfect fuel for modern tech thrillers. Christopher Landon’s Drop leans into this paranoia with all

In the first seconds of Quba!, a small choir emanates years of history through a haunting chant that hides something. Something that can only be identified if you