As idealistic as he was photogenic–my favorite Letterboxd comment in the wake of Robert Redford’s Sept. 16 death was “r.i.p … you were fine as hell”—the actor, movie star, director, and activist believed in the power of the press. Redford lived enough years, 89 of them, to see mass media in its least fraught, least

The new Hulu series “Chad Powers” combines the “over-the-hill athlete makes a comeback” movie and the “person wears prosthetic makeup to pretend to be somebody else” movie. It’s not a combination that has been attempted before, to my knowledge, and when you watch even one episode, you’ll understand why. Glen Powell, who also executive-produced, plays

About midway through Kent Jones’ “Late Fame,” I heard the last thing I ever expected to hear at the New York Film Festival: the voice of Ezra Pound. The aged speaker is not identified, nor is the poem he’s reciting; if you don’t know one or both, it won’t register. The film’s protagonist, Ed Saxberger

My final dispatch from the annual genre fest known as Fantastic Fest highlights three young filmmakers, a reminder of how much this event seeks to amplify new talent. It’s also a remarkable showcase for inclusivity, as the programming team seeks out and elevates the kind of voices that the Hollywood system often ignores, including LGTBQ

One of the best things about Fantastic Fest is the programming team’s willingness to import hits from other festivals. It’s actually the fest where I finally caught up with “Anora” last year, believe it or not, and some of the biggest FF films this year launched at Cannes too, including Oliver Laxe’s stunning “Sirat” and

One episode of the first season of Marvel Studios’ animated anthology series “What If…?” showed what would happen if zombies took over the MCU. For some unknown reason, that was adapted into a four-part miniseries spin-off, “Marvel Zombies,” which continues the narrative thread in a gorier setting. This is possibly the first and only time

Apple TV+’s hit “Slow Horses,” based on the novels by Mick Herron, has become one of the streaming service’s most beloved shows for a reason: efficiency. In an era when so many shows drag their way through overlong seasons, all five chapters of “Slow Horses” are a lean, mean six episodes, and most of those

The vocation that takes center stage in director Uta Briesewitz’s “American Sweatshop” is so depressingly prescient that it’s surprising its particularities haven’t been mined for a genre project until now.  The film focuses on Daisy Moriarity (Lili Reinhart), who works as a content moderator, where she reviews videos flagged for potentially problematic content and either