Marina Times

A Grand Prix winner at Cannes, Payal Kapadia’s second feature, All We Imagine as Light, is constitutionally such a restrained, temperate, no-feelings-hurt movie it’s a wonder ... Read More

Films

Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’ focuses more on art than on people

Artifacts speak for themselves as they embark on a long journey home.

By Michael Atkinson

Mati Diop’s new documentary, Dahomey, is a dreamy little piece of observation, quietly brimming with old-school Negritude and faith in the power of objects. Her ostensible prota... Read More

Films

‘Conclave’ examines the machinations – and scandals – surrounding a papal election

Just in time for the election season, Hollywood delves into the secrets and lies behind the Vatican’s closed doors.

By Nathaniel Bell

It’s a shrewd move to release Conclave, a slick drama about the election of a pope, less than two weeks before the most contentious U.S. election in recent memory. Edward Berger... Read More

Films

Review: ‘Between the Temples’ goes from the head to the heart

Nathan Silver gives his actors plenty of room for wit, pain and surprise.

By Chuck Wilson

A film as eccentric as its main characters, director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples offers perennial scene stealers Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane the lead roles they’v... Read More

Films

Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Does Not Live Up To Its Title — and That’s a Good Thing

By Michael Atkinson

Despite the global success of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things” last year, I don’t think we are all quite yet full-on Lanthimosians, and his new film, the tripartite stealt... Read More

Films

Review: ‘Kidnapped’ sees empire-toppling history through a child’s eyes

Director Marco Bellocchio feasts on Papal skullduggery, but the meal could use more spice

By Michael Atkinson

One of the last surviving red-hot ’60s New Wavers, Marco Bellocchio has had a sine wave of a career, now in its sixth decade — fresh out of the gate with Fists in the Pockets ... Read More

Films

February film festival fever

By Michael Snyder

Say what you will about San Francisco these days, but the city is one of the truly classic settings for movie and television projects, and the local love of cinema is ongoing — ... Read More

Films

Ten movies that mattered in 2023

By Michael Snyder

Like the winds of winter and solstice celebrations, an annual best-of-the-year list from movie critics is inevitable as the calendar flips to January. So here’s a survey of my T... Read More

Films

The indomitable boldness of Indy

By Michael Snyder

More than 40 years after the release of the initial Indiana Jones movie, 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, a fifth and presumably final installment in the beloved adventure series... Read More

Chris Briney and Suki Waterhouse in Daliland. Photo: courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

Films

Hello, Dali — Farewell, Jean

By Michael Snyder

When the past — recent or distant — is recreated on screen, nostalgia could come into play for moviegoers who either lived through the time evoked or wished for the opportunit... Read More

Chloe Coleman Michelle Rodriguez, Chris Pine, Justice Smith, and Sophia Lillis in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves from Paramount Pictures and eOne. Photo: © 2023 Paramount Pictures

Films

Of dungeons, dragons, and doctors

By Michael Snyder

When it comes to the all-important bottom line, a successful movie or television franchise is a golden goose. Studios and networks and cable channels and streaming services seek o... Read More

Films

A commonwealth of great cinema

By Michael Snyder

With so much acclaim earned by so many movies and actors from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa, and New Zealand over the decades, it would be fair to sa... Read More

Films

Review: ‘The Seven Faces of Jane’

By Marina Times

Jane is a remarkable woman with a unique story to tell. She is a walking paradox, with seven distinct personalities living within her. Though born with dissociative identity disor... Read More

Banks Repeta and Jaylin Webb star in Armageddon Time. Photo: Anne Joyce / Focus Features

Films

Exalting the dozen best movies of 2022

By Michael Snyder

In a year replete with horrors big and small, it’s fitting that so many frighteningly creative horror movies were released during the past dozen months. Not that there’s room ... Read More

Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell in Spirited, now streaming on Apple TV+. Photo: Courtesy of Apple TV Plus

Films

Happily ever after for the holidays

By Michael Snyder

According to the perennial tune, it’s the most wonderful time of the year — and we’re in the middle of it, complete with family gatherings that can be nourishing or trying. ... Read More

Films

‘All We Imagine as Light’ casts fleeting shadows

Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’ focuses more on art than on people

‘Conclave’ examines the machinations – and scandals – surrounding a papal election

Review: ‘Between the Temples’ goes from the head to the heart

Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Does Not Live Up To Its Title — and That’s a Good Thing

Review: ‘Kidnapped’ sees empire-toppling history through a child’s eyes

February film festival fever

Ten movies that mattered in 2023

The indomitable boldness of Indy

Hello, Dali — Farewell, Jean

Of dungeons, dragons, and doctors

A commonwealth of great cinema

Review: ‘The Seven Faces of Jane’

Exalting the dozen best movies of 2022

Happily ever after for the holidays

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