‘Nobody’s Fool’ Is Paul Newman’s Best Loser Role
In Nobody’s Fool, Paul Newman turns in one of his most purely enjoyable performances as an absentee father from a small town navigating the winter of his life.
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‘A Man and a Woman’ and a Dizzy 1960s Romance
Claude Lelouch’s hugely popular A Man and a Woman was criticized for its sleek, chic, starstruck, pie-eyed, romantic wish fulfillment. Yet therein lay its radicalism.
‘My Word Against Mine’ Turns Fracture into Procedure
Psychoanalysis documentary One Word Against Mine relies on that unstable border between what seems to come from outside and what has already taken shape within.
Star Trek’s Ultimate, Absolute, Inarguably Final Frontier
In the minds of Star Trek‘s many creators, the “sky” is the limit(less), but been there, done that. So what’s left for our adventurous mythmakers to explore?
‘Project Hail Mary’ Tests Our Limits
By trying to recreate The Martian with Project Hail Mary, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller prove how elusive such broadly appealing blockbusters are.
‘Scream 7’ Is Spinning Its Wheels in the Chop Shop
Brutally stripped of the cunning self-awareness that once made the franchise so singular, Ghostface’s latest Scream outing commits every genre sin it once condemned.
‘Mailin’ Is a Dark Fairy Tale of Survival
María Silvia Esteve’s Mailin drifts toward a dreamscape of surviving trauma and injustice.
The Microbudget Making of Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater’s largely ignored pre-Slacker microbudget movie was just the start of his ambitious, driven, disciplined dream come true.
‘Hamnet’, Memory and the Politics of Allegory
Zhao’s Hamnet subverts the “great man narrative” not by centering on the rising career of Shakespeare, but instead on the cost of his genius.
What ‘Bridge of Spies’ Gets Right About America
A ten-year-old Steven Spielberg movie starring Tom Hanks may seem a strange inspiration to fight anti-immigration in 2026, but that’s exactly what Bridge of Spies provides.
‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon’ Shows a Primal Method for Survival
In one of A Fox Under a Pink Moon’s sharpest insights, imagination is one of the few available means of surviving a crisis.
Jack Benny Tries to Be a Lothario in These Saucy 1930s Comedies
It’s absurd to think of Jack Benny or his characters as lotharios, but he does his best in these 1930s saucy, censor-restricted comedies.