“Mishima,” which explores nationalism, sexuality and ritual suicide, was screened in Tokyo for the first time since its 1985 release.
Category: Movies
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‘Frankenstein’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Guillermo del Toro narrates a sequence from his film, starring “Oscar Isaac.”
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‘Sentimental Value’ Review: Joachim Trier’s Unhappy Household
In this moving drama from the director of “The Worst Person in the World,” Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve star as father and daughter in counterpoint.
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John Russell Taylor, 90, Dies; Cultural Critic and Hitchcock Biographer
A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.
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‘Sarah’s Oil’ Review: The Little Drilling Rig That Could
A young Black girl learns that her land allotment is rich with oil in this story that aspires to teach us a lesson about white predation.
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You Can’t Make a Jersey Movie Without the Diner
The new Bruce Springsteen biopic uses the diner as a cinematic device, and a symbol of a state that has been called the nation’s “Diner Capital.”
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‘Predator: Badlands’ Review: It Lives!
The latest installment from the director of “Prey” finds a Predator and an android played by Elle Fanning teaming up against some big baddies.
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‘Nuremberg’ Review: Inside the Nazi Mind
This movie starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe looks back at the trials and a psychiatrist who evaluated the defendants.
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‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Tell Me Everything
Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall invigorate this experimental look at a gifted New York photographer.
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‘Modi’ Review: 3 Days in the Life of Modigliani
The movie, directed by Johnny Depp, adapted from a play by Dennis McIntyre, follows the artist fleeing the police, in Paris.
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‘Die My Love’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence in a Mother of a Role
The actress gives a career-defining performance opposite Robert Pattinson in Lynne Ramsay’s latest.
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‘Christy’ Review: The Lady in Pink? She Packs a Fierce Punch
The ring is a treacherous place to be, but for this boxer, the living room held the greater threat of terror.