He won multiple awards during his 50-year career, including the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and spent his life championing African cinema.
Category: Movies
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Souleymane Cissé, Celebrated Malian Filmmaker, Dies at 84
He won multiple awards during his 50-year career, including the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and spent his life championing African cinema.
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‘The Quiet Ones’ Review: Getting Swindled in Copenhagen
Inspired by a real heist, this Danish thriller has more moving parts than it can keep track of.
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‘Old Guy’ Review: The Veteran and the Rookie
Christoph Waltz plays an aging hit man begrudgingly training his replacement in Simon West’s stale action movie.
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‘Millers in Marriage’ Review: Squall in the Family
Three siblings navigate midlife crises in Edward Burns’s glossy look at marriages in transition.
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‘Ex-Husbands’ Review: Three Unweddings and a Funeral
In this Griffin Dunne dramedy, a father and his sons face different kinds of relationship troubles at the same time.
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The New ‘Captain America’ Movie Isn’t Great. But Don’t Call Him a D.E.I. Hire.
Anthony Mackie picks up the shield at a potentially awkward time. But there’s one way Disney can do right by him and the next generation of Marvel stars.
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‘Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse’ Review: Graphic Doom
In this straightforward documentary, the acclaimed cartoonist reflects on his Holocaust memoir, “Maus,” and other masterworks of subversion.
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‘The Monkey’ Review: A Stephen King Story Adapted Into a Gory Farce
A gruesome horror comedy adapted from a Stephen King story mixes nihilism, fatherhood and carnage.
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George Clooney Is Making His Broadway Debut With ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’
He is making his Broadway debut with a stage version of his 2005 movie “Good Night, and Good Luck.” He’s ready, but also terrified.
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‘Pedro Páramo,’ ‘Let’s Start a Cult’ and More Streaming Gems
Two releases from last year — one an inventive literary adaptation, the other a wild, gross-out comedy — are among this month’s streaming recommendations.
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“No Other Land” Is the Oscar-Nominated Film That No Studio Will Touch
“No Other Land,” about the destruction of a village in the occupied West Bank, is one of the year’s most acclaimed films. Still, U.S. studios are unwilling to distribute it.