Over 50 movies will be screened at the event, including Johnny Depp’s first major film since a defamation trial and Martin Scorsese’s latest epic.
Category: Movies
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‘One True Loves’ Review: A Romance Lost at Sea
A film adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel has potential for drama, but it stumbles on stock melodrama.
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‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’ Review: This Giant Frog Needs Your Help
An enigmatic adaptation of a short story collection by Haruki Murakami, this animated film is set shortly after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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‘Mafia Mamma’ Review: An Offer You Can Refuse
Toni Collette has no chance of saving this jumble of Mob clichés and female empowerment.
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‘Beau Is Afraid’ Review: A Visit With Mommy Dearest
In Ari Aster’s latest freakout, Joaquin Phoenix plays a sad sack who endures a crucible of suffering to see his monstrous mother. Paging Dr. Freud!
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‘Sick of Myself’ Review: When Main Character Syndrome Runs Amok
From Norway, this smug satire tracks the rise and fall of an attention-seeking young woman who intentionally disfigures herself by taking a sketchy Russian drug.
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‘Tommy Guns’ Review: A Shape-Shifting Spectacle of Military Life
Portuguese boys train for service in occupied Angola in Carlos Conceição’s drama, which incorporates elements of a ghost story.
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‘The Plains’ Review: Road to Somewhere
This experimental film pulls together excerpts from 11 evening commutes, as a man drives from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, toward the city’s center.
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‘Air’ and the Argument for Letting the Talent Share in the Profits
The movie’s focus (how Michael Jordan got a cut from Nike) reflects what its filmmakers, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, are trying to do in their new venture.
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Hollywoods Newest Stars? Nike, BlackBerry and Cheetos.
A new spate of films stars not people but consumer products.
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‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Brings Family Box Office Roaring Back
The film’s blockbuster opening weekend raised hopes that animation, once one of Hollywood’s safest bets, had recovered from the pandemic.
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Bill Butler, Cinematographer Best Known for ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 101
He came up with a mechanism that allowed Steven Spielberg to film underwater. His work on “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” earned him an Oscar nomination.