I was watching a documentary the other night—I’m not going to say which one here, because it was good and intelligent overall, and the filmmakers might be reading this—and got annoyed immediately because it was steeped in the same storytelling cliches as so many other documentaries made nowadays. It started with a sort of compressed,
There are problems with “A Muerte” / “Love You to Death,” Apple TV+’s new Spanish series. For one, the pilot is frustratingly slow, lacking future episodes’ heart, charm, and action. It’s all set up and done in such a perfunctory (aka boring) way that I imagine many viewers won’t get past it. Particularly because we
Christi Ballard, founder of Status, turned a lifelong love for luxury handbags and sustainability into a thriving business. Ballard started by hosting private gatherings and popups. The demand for her luxury finds led to her opening her store at Aksarben Village in 2021. Due to high demand, she moved into a larger space in
CHAMPAIGN, IL (February 3, 2025) — Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced today the addition of three new films to this year’s festival: 40th Anniversary Screening of Susan Seidelman’s DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN starring Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, and Madonna Azazel Jacobs’ HIS THREE DAUGHTERS starring Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, and Elizabeth Olsen
I’m sometimes overly forgiving of the state of network TV. I’m also overly forgiving of a serial killer procedural that was done well. I found escapist value in the “CSI” and “Criminal Minds” franchises, along with some of their wannabes. And the concept of NBC’s “The Hunting Party” feels like a slam dunk: A bunch
With the state of Democracy a shambles and hope being sucked out of the country like helium from a balloon, I thought I’d offer a micro vision of hope, a poem about the humble beginnings of a man who would, one day, do great and terrible things, but who believed in whatever this country is.
Unlike the rest of the dispatches I’ve written out of Sundance, the selections here are not defined by their competitive category. This one is a little bit more of a hodgepodge. “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)” and “DJ Ahmet,” for instance, are from the World Dramatic section, while “André Is an Idiot” premiered as part of
10 NEW TO NETFLIX “The Age of Adaline”“Apollo 13”“Dune”“Hereditary”“Inception”“Interstellar”“Lion”“Melancholia”“Schindler’s List”“Snowpiercer” 12 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “The Cell” (Arrow) In the wake of the massive critical success of films like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Se7en,” (coincidentally also in this month’s column), Tarsem’s “The Cell” was greeted with a shrug. Most critics dismissed it as style
My critical efforts to never judge a film before seeing it are most challenged by remakes of movies I adore. Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” is a wonderful comedy, and Hector Babenco’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” was a powerful filmgoing experience for me as a young man. I once discussed why a film should
This year’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition features three films all about characters on spiritual, physical, and sexual journeys toward new versions of themselves. Nadia Fall’s “Brides” follows two girls as they travel from the U.K. to Syria in order to join an extremist group they think will offer them freedom from religious persecution and a