The tightly constructed story unfolds chronologically in scenes of varying length that end and begin abruptly, and are separated by a few seconds of black. As time passes and periodically leaps forward...
Read moreMoore first made her name with ’80s Brat Pack fare like “St. Elmo’s Fire,” and was nominated for a Globe in 1991, for the blockbuster romance “Ghost.” Hits like “Indecent Proposal” and...
Read moreKarla Sofía Gascón made Oscar history on Thursday, becoming the first openly trans actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as the title character in “Emilia Pérez.”In the...
Read moreCaptain Picard would not approve. Luckily, he isn’t around yet to comment on “Star Trek: Section 31,” the 14th film in the franchise and the first to be made for streaming. Set...
Read moreIt has been interesting to watch directors fiddle with the kind of filmmaking technology we’re all carrying around in our pockets. Long before he made “Anora,” Sean Baker shot his screwball comedy...
Read moreJudi Dench, the veteran English stage and film actress, said this month that her vision loss had progressed to the point that she no longer attended red-carpet premieres and other events alone.“I...
Read moreThe movie trailer hit heavy rotation on N.F.L. playoff broadcasts and elsewhere earlier this month. A pilot played by Mark Wahlberg is flying a federal agent and a government witness in a...
Read moreSometimes, when I poll Oscar voters about the films and performances they plan to nominate, they turn the tables on me.“What do you want to happen?” they ask.Maybe they’re expecting me to...
Read more‘Problemista’ (2024)Stream it on Max.The comedian Julio Torres writes, directs and stars in this gleefully absurd, semi-surreal combination of outsider comedy and New York art world satire. The protagonist Alejandro, like Torres,...
Read moreEvery so often a tedious debate crops up on social media: Are sex scenes even necessary in movies? Gen Z, we are told, want to see fewer of them. And yet the...
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