On Saturday, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese’s harrowing epic about one of America’s favorite pastimes — mass murder — had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, screening out of...
Read moreCorsini is one of the seven women with a movie in the 21-title main lineup, which is a very good number. Cannes has always been happy to have young, beautiful women in...
Read moreYou might not know where you are when “The Zone of Interest” begins, and that’s by design. This new film from the director Jonathan Glazer, which has been hotly tipped for a...
Read more3‘Snake’D.H. Lawrence builds the poem dramatically about how he found a snake sipping out of his water trough and clumsily throws this lump of wood. Then he says, “I think it did...
Read moreJim Brown, the Cleveland Browns fullback who was acclaimed as one of the greatest players in pro football history, and who remained in the public eye as a Hollywood action hero and...
Read more‘A Family’Stream it on Netflix.Turning away from the portrayal of Yakuza as reckless renegades guided solely by blood lust, Michihito Fujii’s “A Family” paints the mobsters in a different, melancholic light. Known...
Read more“White Men Can’t Jump” was released on March 27, 1992. On the morning of March 28 — according to a wonderful if apocryphal sports legend — Michael Jordan rolled up to the...
Read moreOver the course of more than 20 years of the “Fast and Furious” — the 10th in the franchise, “Fast X,” arrives this weekend — battles have been fought, villains have been...
Read moreThe 1992 sports comedy “White Men Can’t Jump,” written and directed by Ron Shelton, was a cheeky, provocative film that took a raucously skewed view of race relations and street ball. It’s...
Read morePart of the kick of “Master Gardener” is that the writer-director Paul Schrader manages to pull off this improbable movie. It shouldn’t work and, even after seeing it twice, I don’t think...
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