Wearing a Mask to Tell the Truth: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi on Drive My Car
Few filmmakers navigate the intimate revelations of performance as skillfully as Ryūsuke Hamaguchi. Across his unobtrusive, gently existential melodramas of connection and longing, characters move gradually toward self-knowledge through patterns…
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House of Gucci
If “The Godfather” and “Succession” had an ostentatious lovechild, it would look something like Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” the master’s sweeping yet wildly imbalanced rendering of the titular and…
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Hawkeye is a Forgettable Vision of a Secondary Hero
“Your whole thing is that you’re low-key. It’s a very hard brand to sell.” The most by-the-numbers member of The Avengers is the first to get his own show this…
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Home Entertainment Guide: November 2021
10 NEW TO NETFLIX “21 Jump Street““Addams Family Values““Ali““Bram Stoker’s Dracula““Last Action Hero““Let Me In““Moneyball““The Nightingale““A River Runs Through It““Snakes on a Plane” 10 NEW TO HBO MAX “A Clockwork…
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#420 November 23, 2021
Matt writes: As an executive producer of Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing,” RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert penned a personal essay entitled “The Freedom to Pass,” in which she details how…
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Behold the craven exercise in hollow nostalgia that is “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.” In taking over the “Ghostbusters” mantle from his father, Ivan, director Jason Reitman trots out all the characters, props,…
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Not knowing in advance that “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” begins with a few minutes of hardcore pornography, I made the mistake of starting it on a big television in a…
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www.skits.ng Netflix’s Hellbound is a Brutal, Thrilling Series About Belief
The wrath of God has been rendered, cinematically speaking, in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes it’s a perfect storm; sometimes it’s Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules striking great vengeance down upon…
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Bright Wall/Dark Room November 2021: Why You Want to Leave Me? by Steph Green
We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the November 2021 edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their theme this month is “Generations.” In addition to the excerpted essay below on…
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