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“Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how,” writes Helen Macdonald in “H Is…
Read more ‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: Claire Foy Is Enraptured With Raptors in an Unconventional Yet Moving Grief DramaJesse Plemons is surprisingly energetic when I meet him on Sunday at the Telluride Film Festival. He’s just arrived for the weekend from Venice, Italy, where his film…
Read more Jesse Plemons Says ‘Bugonia’ was “The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done”When does a gambling habit become a gambling problem? Is it when you’re down to your last wadded-up banknote, which you keep stuffed in your sock till all…
Read more ‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Review: A Fully Committed Colin Farrell Bets the House in a Too-Flashy Portrait of AddictionHelen (Claire Foy) is not the kind of woman to wallow in her emotions. After her beloved father (Brendan Gleeson) passes, she insists she’s not moping (“Dad would…
Read more ‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: Claire Foy and Her Bird Fly High in a Tender but Overlong Grief DramaBecoming a meme doesn’t guarantee you make it into the final cut. Jeremy Strong fans will learn this the hard way come October 24, when “Springsteen: Deliver Me…
Read more Jeremy Strong’s Meme-Bait Monologue Cut From Springsteen Biopic ‘Deliver Me from Nowhere’: No More ‘Hole in the Floor’I love when a project has a title that seems just a little off but offers a purposeful piece of wordplay. It doesn’t have to be distractingly askew. …
Read more ‘Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher’ Review: Documentary Traces a Remarkable Under-the-Radar Musical LegacyChloe Zhao’s adaptation of the novel Hamnet reimagines the poetic act of creating the greatest play in the English language. Photo: Agata Grzybowska/Focus Features We know next to…
Read more The Most Devastating Movie I’ve Seen in YearsMovies about the relationship between a person and one of God’s creatures is becoming a virtual genre of its own. My Penguin Friend, Penguin Lessons, The Starling and…
Read more ‘H Is For Hawk’ Review: Claire Foy Soars High In True Drama About A Woman And A Goshawk Who Bond Over Life And Loss – Telluride Film FestivalThe Telluride Film Festival always brings A-list actors and filmmakers to the picturesque Colorado mountain town. This year, the festival’s also welcoming two larger-than-life icons: William Shakespeare and…
Read more Shakespeare and Springsteen Lead the 2025 Telluride Film Festival LineupWe’re just one day away from the kickoff of fall-film-festival season—considered the most wonderful time of year for Oscar obsessives like us. This year’s crop is full of…
Read more The 20 Most Promising Movies at the 2025 Fall Film FestivalsThe Venice Film Festival continued its ascent this year, rivaling Cannes — long the undisputed king of all film festivals — in its capacity to draw stars, spark debate and…
Read more The Best Films of the Fall Fests: From Mike Leigh to Pedro AlmodóvarOn Sunday, for the first time since the Telluride Film Festival’s North American premiere of Jacques Audiard’s one-of-a-kind musical Emilia Pérez on Friday, the three principal stars of…
Read more Telluride: Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón on ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Breaking Barriers and Yearning to Be Seen Differently (Exclusive)Director Edward Berger, who made one of the best movies of 2022 with a vivid adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, shifts gears rewardingly to a…
Read more ‘Conclave’ Review: Ralph Fiennes Gives a Career-Best Performance in Edward Berger’s Gripping Vatican-Set DramaFor nearly 20 years, Zoe Saldaña has starred in some of the most financially successful films in history, including “Avatar” and “Avengers: Endgame.” You’d think an actress with…
Read more Zoe Saldaña Has Arrived for Her Oscar Moment in the Best Picture Contender ‘Emilia Pérez’When filmmakers Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault heard that it seemed likely that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, they sprang into action, thinking about how they could…
Read more Documentary Zurawski v Texas Reveals the Personal Devastation of Antiabortion LawsFor some movies playing at the fall film festivals in Venice, Telluride, and Toronto, the events are a chance to continue a conversation that started earlier in the…
Read more The 14 Best Movies From the Fall Film FestivalsNichols cast Comer in the role before he’d seen her Emmy-winning work on Killing Eve, and long before her one-woman Broadway show Prima Facie won her a Tony.…
Read more With ‘The Bikeriders’, Jeff Nichols Rides Into Uncharted TerritoryWriter-director Emerald Fennell’s blazing, blaring debut feature, 2020’s Promising Young Woman, presented a kicky setup—a traumatized woman getting revenge on predatory men by faking helplessness and waiting to…
Read more Saltburn Is Stylish and Intriguing, With Barry Keoghan In Full CommandIn 2011, the British filmmaker Andrew Haigh told the story of a young gay man living in an anonymous high rise and seeking some kind of human connection.…
Read more All of Us Strangers Is a Raggedly Emotional Spectre of a Ghost Story
