Science FictionEnvironmental disaster and artificial intelligence run amok have emerged as the major science-fiction concerns of our time. Compared to those, gray, almond-eyed aliens in flying saucers, hellbent on destroying humanity, feel...
Read more“Wonka” is the latest film to try to shake the tiny unpaid laborers from their colonialist roots in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
Read more“Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” features a central plot twist that makes the story problematic for contemporary audiences: A group of ill-mannered brothers kidnaps the women they have been eyeing.The plot device...
Read moreCinephiles of a certain age have a Jean-Luc Godard film that when first seen, blew their minds. Mine was Godard’s low-budget foray into dystopian science fiction, “Alphaville.”Having opened the 1965 New York...
Read moreThis documentary looks at the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who sought with each new work to confound assumptions about how movies could look and sound.
Read moreHow did you feel when you wrapped the film?YOO First of all, there was a tremendous sigh of relief. I felt this heavy burden was lifted off my shoulders because I’m not...
Read moreTwo documentaries selected concern battles for representation. The Oscar-winning “Helen Keller in Her Story” (1954), by Nancy Hamilton, follows its subject, who was deaf and blind, from her childhood frustration to global...
Read moreAfter an awkward MeToo hiatus, ‘May December’ and other films are showing intimacy in messy, complicated ways again.
Read more“Barbie” led the nominations with nine, followed by “Oppenheimer” with eight. In the television categories, “Succession” had the most with nine.
Read moreWhen Holly Waddington, the costume designer for “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos’s much heralded phantasmagorical film about a young women’s psychological and sexual awakening that opened on Friday, began thinking about what her...
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