Hamnet — All The Stage’s Their World "The undiscovered country, at whose sight. The happy smile, and the accursed damn'd..." The first thing likely to hit you about Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel is the rawness and...
Rental Family — A Dreamy Stroll Through White Lies When is high-concept light as a feather? A film that layers untruths, lies, and deception could and maybe should be an existential slog. Instead, with Rental Family, director Hikari (also co-writer with...
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — Streamlined Revenge Is the four-and-a-half-hour rampage of revenge worth the wait? Almost two decades after it premiered at Cannes, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair emerges to drag the masses back to one of cinema’s...
Wicked for Good — Sticking The Landing Can love and friendship conquer all? Unlike other stories concluding at the flicks this year (hi, Mission Impossible), fans of Wicked know what to expect with Wicked: For Good—or rather, they know what they’re not...
Bugonia — A Blooming Kidnap Drama What starts with bees ends with bees Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons reunite with frankly, indecent quality. An English-language remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! (2003), it’s easy to see why...
