Sometimes a movie completely surprises you, leads you in a direction you don’t expect. Deerskin was one such film.

Sidways' depiction of high-functioning depression destroys me every time. It's not absurd - it's very real and honest and ...

Jean Rollin's films connect because he doesn't care about narrative logic, because he's committed to immersing the viewer in ...

I’ll tell you why Captain America: Brave New World failed. It doesn’t build Sam Wilson up as a character. Look at successful movies about superheroes and superhero-adjacent characters. The Dark Knight ...

I have a new motto for 2025, and perhaps for the rest of my life: keep it simple. The lack of simplicity has ruined this world. Little did we know that by complicating everything we do, we complicate ...

This entry is part of My Cinephile Journey with Federico Fellini. As Pauline Kael rightfully points out in her review, there are two particular sequences ...

Three Films. One Theme. Infinite Exploration. Each week, we recommend three movies connected by a single idea. Whether you’re a seasoned cinephile or just beginning... Look, I love the movie Warrior.

Often, a film noir plot mimics a dream, which is usually a disconnected series of events that, inevitably, comments on something very specific: you.

Thank god for Tony Rayns, whose commentary for The Undercover Man made me realize what makes Joseph H. Lewis’s aesthetic so interesting. Lewis wasn’t an auteur, somebody who imposed a trademarked look ...