Kathleen Kennedy stepped down as Lucasfilm’s president and returned to producing. Two studio veterans took over.
Category: Movies
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‘Queen Kelly’ Review: His Majesty, Von Stroheim
The 1929 silent film returns in a shimmering, sensitively scored restoration that brings out the lurid and the romantic in Erich von Stroheim’s story of orphan-meets-prince.
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‘A Useful Ghost’ Review: Machine Yearning
A grieving widower finds his problems are just beginning when his wife returns in the form of a household appliance in this gloriously funny, shape-shifting debut feature.
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‘Sound of Falling’ Review: A Fortress of Feminine Mysteries
This detour-heavy film moves across time periods to follow girlhood mischief, desire and abuse on a German farm.
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‘Shuffle’ Review: The Real Price of Rehab
Benjamin Flaherty discovered some disturbing tendencies in the addiction recovery industry. His documentary is upsetting and revelatory.
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‘A Private Life’ Review: Jodie Foster Uncovers a Twisty Plot in Paris
Speaking in French (but cursing in English), the actress plays an American psychiatrist abroad who stumbles into unexpected intrigue.
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‘Night Patrol’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the Night
Rival gangs in Los Angeles join forces when a bloodsucking unit of the police department invades their community.
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‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review: Sympathy for the Devil
The latest installment in the zombie saga is all about evil and good, and whether any of it exists.
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The Art of a Good Awards-Show Speech
Demi Moore nailed it at last year’s Globes, and so did Teyana Taylor this year. The best acceptances keep in mind four key guidelines.
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Dramas Keep Showing Us Hapless Men — and Hypercompetent Women
Several of the past year’s films center on confused, bumbling protagonists — surrounded by women who are anything but.
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In ‘Sound of Falling,’ a House Full of Secrets
Mascha Schilinski’s movie “Sound of Falling,” which takes place over a century in a rural farmhouse, shows how trauma is transmitted through generations.