During the opening credits of Léolo, the second feature by Canadian director Jean-Claude Lauzon, white titles appear on a black screen. Amid the titles, a single image fades in: an artistic cabinet of...

No Time to Die, the latest and last appearance of Daniel Craig as James Bond, is a lot of movie. It’s so much movie that one hardly knows where to begin. So let’s start with the runtime, which carries...

Crises tend to grind down on our pretenses, exposing our true natures. Take a scene in the 1997 movie The Edge when, stranded in the wilderness and stalked by a bloodthirsty grizzly bear, Alec Baldwin...

If you remember life before the internet—before social media, online performativity, smartphone addiction, twenty open tabs on your browser, and corrosive virtual communities—you’re part of a shrinkin...

“When do you become an adult?” asks the 13-year-old John (Charlie Shotwell) of his mother. Her response, apparently, doesn’t satisfy him. So John intends to find out for himself. He drugs his yuppie p...

In his essays about aesthetic theory, Leo Tolstoy talks about art arising from “the artist’s soul, which, when expressed, lights up the path along which humanity progresses.” Adapting Tolstoy’s ...

Some movie theater experiences you never forget. It was the summer of 1999, and I had just received my driver’s license and started to explore my newfound freedom on the road. Soon I would get my firs...

Damsel, written and directed by the Zellner brothers, might answer the question of why no one smiles in Wild West photos. Experts argue that early cameras required longer exposure times, so photograph...

The Tomorrow War plays like the filmmakers started by asking everyone involved to make a list of their favorite science-fiction movies, and then Frankensteined elements from those lists into a vaguely...