‘Hamnet,’ ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Sentimental Value’ are also in the running for best film at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars.
Category: Movies
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‘Volcano,’ the L.A. Disaster Movie That Boils Over With Unintended Comedy
Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche teamed up in their heyday to save Los Angeles from lava in this big-budget 1997 film that defies all logic to fantastic, farcical effect.
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‘Great Freedom’ Review: Unbroken
In this moving period drama, a German gay man repeatedly declares his independence in a country that criminalizes his desire and his identity.
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‘Nightride’ Review: One Last Job
The movie is indebted to neon-lit crime thrillers set behind the wheel of an outlaw’s automobile, but it fails to deliver the goods.
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With ‘After Yang,’ Kogonada Explores What It Means to Be Alive
Kogonada, whose new film is the futuristic A.I. drama “After Yang,” reflects on the nature of his work, and of existence.
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‘Great Freedom’: Film Traces Long Shadow of Anti-Gay Law in Germany
A new film traces the many decades it took to abolish Paragraph 175, a measure criminalizing sex between men that was strengthened by the Nazis.
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Russian Filmmakers and Other Artists Face Boycotts Over Ukraine
A Russian moviemaker with Ukrainian roots and relatives in Kyiv denounced the war. The Glasgow Film Festival dropped his film anyway.
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Five Horror Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks feature a ruthless wendigo, a cloistered bloodsucker, a bayou demon, wily jungle spirits and a grinning fiend named Rotcreep.
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Alan Ladd Jr., Hitmaking Film Executive, Dies at 84
When other studios didn’t want it, he took on the project that became “Star Wars.” He later guided “Chariots of Fire,” “Young Frankenstein” and numerous other movies.
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‘The Batman’ Opens With Blockbuster Ticket Sales
The movie took in nearly $250 million worldwide. In some domestic theaters, it was about $1 more for standard “Batman” tickets than for other movies.
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Matt Reeves Explains the Ending of ‘The Batman’
The film’s director and co-writer talks about the tumultuous conclusion and its chilling parallels to the real world. Read this after you’ve seen the movie.
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Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’ Helps Break a Glass Ceiling
Domee Shi is the first woman filmmaker with sole directing credit on a Pixar feature.