Category: Movies

Harmony Korine’s ‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Makes Los Angeles Debut

Critics panned “Aggro Dr1ft,” but the film found its intended audience in a surreal experience at a Los Angeles strip club.
Five International Movies to Stream Now

This month’s picks include a decades-spanning Chinese drama, a thriller about a teenage immigrant in Canada, an absurdist French crime comedy and more.
Five Black Romantic Movies to Stream

For Valentine’s Day and Black History Month, watch these selections that brim with Black love, heartache and desire from across the diaspora.
Five Black Romantic Movies to Stream

For Valentine’s Day and Black History Month, watch these selections that brim with Black love, heartache and desire from across the diaspora.
In ‘The Taste of Things,’ the Food Was Prepared by the Actors

“The Taste of Things” didn’t use cooking doubles, but a pro offscreen helped guide the stars. Getting the meals right was everything to the director Tran Anh Hung.
Jonathan Majors Had History of Abuse in Relationships, Women Say

The actor denied physical abuse. Separately, he said he wasn’t told of accusations of misbehavior on the set of “Lovecraft Country.”
Academy Awards Announces New Oscar for Achievement in Casting

After decades of lobbying from the casting field, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is adding its first new award category since 2001.
‘The Monk and the Gun’ Review: A Satirical Fable in a Faraway Land

This feature follows two monks in Bhutan, often portrayed as a Shangri-La, as the country readies for its first democratic elections.
‘Here’ Review: A Celebration of Connection

In Bas Devos’s muted and luminous Belgian drama, two lonely souls repeatedly encounter each other.
‘Cobweb’ Review: A Film Within a Director’s Cinematic Ego Trip

Kim Jee-woon toys with the absurdity of filmmaking itself in this story of a director compelled to take his cast and crew captive to shoot one more scene.
‘Drift’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Keeps a Breakdown at Bay

Anthony Chen’s quiet character study follows a traumatized Liberian woman (Cynthia Erivo) on a Greek island who befriends an American tour guide (Alia Shawkat).
‘Out of Darkness’ Review: Prime Evil

A Stone Age tribe is hunted by an unseen entity in this wondrously atmospheric survival thriller, which unfolds in a fictional language.