Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Sheep in the Box’ Embraces AI Unquestioningly
Hirokazu Koreeda’s unsettling Sheep in the Box confuses love with imitation and embraces AI unquestioningly.
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Laura La Plante’s and Marion Davies’ Gender-Defying Silent Comedies
Marion Davies and Laura La Plante were two of the most delightful comedians of the silent film era, and the charm hasn’t worn off in these gender role reversals.
‘Bouchra’ Explores How Artists Create New Forms for Familiar Questions
Bouchra has so many visually stunning frames, so many moments that make the familiar strange and newly beautiful, and so many unexpected conversations with other films and works of art.
Venice Film Festival 2026 Carefully Welcomes the Political in Filmmaking
Venice Film Festival 2026 embraced film’s political nature—though not without flinching—as we examine works by Paul Schrader, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, and an Oasis documentary.
Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink’ Gets Despicability Fabulously
Danny Boyle’s Ink shows how both sides of the sordid media war between Rupert Murdoch and Larry Lamb are despicable.
Dolly Parton’s Greatest Movie Role
Dolly Parton’s small but revealing filmography shows that her carefully constructed persona was never an obstacle to acting, but its richest material.
‘The Odyssey’ Tries to Convince Us That Our Leaders Give a Damn
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey tries to convince viewers that those in political and military power regret the suffering they cause, but we know better.
‘Late Fame’ Is Wise to the Poetic Side of Life
Part mash note to Downtown Bohemia, part love letter to New York City, Late Fame is rich with poetic touchstones.
Triptych Drama ‘D’ici là’ Is a Finely Judged Collection of Stories
Sarah Leonor’s triptych drama D’ici la is an exercise in humility, emphasizing nature’s sensuality beneath the weight of the human footprint.
Lana Daher’s ‘Do You Love Me’ Turns Disorientation Into a Closed Circuit
Lana Daher’s documentary Do You Love Me makes Lebanon’s cycles of crisis palpable, but its deliberate disorientation obscures the political distinctions it seeks to recover.
Suburban Conformity and Youthful Autonomy in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
In his quirky comedy, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Tim Burton redefines what being an adult actually is, or can mean.
Sex, Violence, and Politics Soak Nagisa Ōshima’s ‘Cruel Story of Youth’
Nagisa Ōshima’s Cruel Story of Youth prefers to understand its protagonists rather than evaluate them, reserving its verdicts for the social structures that define them.