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Writer/director Anderson once again turns to Los Angeles of the 1970s for his latest concoction, although Licorice Pizza, a quirky romance set in 1973, is far...

The Matrix blew everyone away when it was released in 1999. Its makers, then billed as the Wachowski Brothers, had only one previous feature under their belt...

The atmospheric Lamb opens on a snowy Christmas Eve on a sheep farm in Iceland. We sense that the camera, slowly lurching towards a wooden sheep pen, is...

Matt Damon plays against type as a laconic Oklahoma roughneck named Bill Baker, whose daughter Allison (Abigail Breslin, proving herself very capable of holding...

It’s hard to review this documentary without simply synopsizing it, for it is a straightforward if well-told account of the Salvator Mundi, a portrait of...

I try not to use the term “visionary” to describe most filmmakers, especially nowadays. Not only because filmmaking is such a collaborative...

Marvel’s apparently earnest push for diversity continues with its first Asian American superhero movie, based on a character little-known outside the...

In an alternate universe, one without a pandemic, writer/director/editor Chloé Zhao would have had two 2020 releases under her belt: Nomadland and Eternals,...

The first act of I Care a Lot should terrify any senior citizen or their children. I Care a Lot Directed by J Blakeson – 2021 Reviewed by Mark Tapio Kines...

Cassie (Carey Mulligan) is a woman on a mission: every weekend, she goes to a bar and pretends to be blackout drunk. Promising Young Woman Directed by Emerald...

Despite its pretentious title, this is a no-nonsense dramatization of the short life of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya),...

Is The Little Things a 2021 release or not? It’s hard to tell, with the pandemic forcing so many films to debut on streaming services, forgiving the old...

You may snigger at the title, but Dick Johnson Is Dead is an earnest documentary about the filmmaker’s father, an 85-year-old widowed psychiatrist...

This film is based on August Wilson’s 1984 play of the same title, and despite energetic camerawork and editing, it very much feels like filmed theatre...

Sound of Metal‘s premise is frightening in its simplicity: a rock and roll drummer (Riz Ahmed) loses his hearing. Sound of Metal Directed by Darius Marder...

All I need to say is this film’s title and “written and directed by Aaron Sorkin” and you know exactly what you’re in for: snappy...