Anamaria Vartolomei began her film career when she was 12 opposite Isabelle Huppert in a film about a controversial photographer and her daughter. And in the past few years, Vartolomei, now 26,...
Read moreI had only three days to prepare for the screen test and audition, which wasn’t as much time as I’d like. So I tried to go as broad as possible, and then...
Read more‘Reversi’Stream it on Netflix.“Time waits for no one,” Akid (Beto Kusyairy) says. Except for him, that is. He comes from a family in which people can travel back to the past. The...
Read more“Sinners” is one of those rare modern blockbusters that fans are dissecting on a near literary level. There have been paragraphs dedicated to its symbolism, social media threads about its cultural themes,...
Read moreIs this the cure to male loneliness?‘Friendship’Tim Robinson stars as Craig, a lonely, awkward suburban dad who develops an obsession with the effortlessly cool Austin (Paul Rudd) in this comedy directed by...
Read moreIn 2017, a robot named Sophia was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, a dubious move on many fronts. Real human women had only earned the right to drive a car in the country...
Read moreVince Vaughn plays a restaurant owner who hires Italian grandmothers to cook for him in this corn-filled gabagool.
Read moreThe story, such as it is, opens in the northern city of Datong and emerges gradually without the usual filmmaking preamble and prompts. If Jia has ever read a screenwriting manual, he...
Read moreExcept Craig, being a certain variety of grown American man, doesn’t have friends, per se. He has Tami, who is almost unbelievably nice to him given he’s sort of a putz: obsessed...
Read moreHigh schoolers revving up to lose their virginities by graduation are a teen comedy mainstay. The cheekily titled “Summer of 69,” directed by the comedy actress Jillian Bell, turns the trope on...
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