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From its opening frames, Josh Safdie's latest feature, Marty Supreme , intentionally disorients the viewer, establishing a kinetic temporal displacement that mirrors the psychological state of its central character. The film is nominally set in the 1950s, yet it employs a visual and emotional vernacular strongly reminiscent of the tense, jittery character studies of the 1970s, all underscored by an anachronistic soundtrack featuring 1980s needle drops from artists like Public

Chloé Zhao has cultivated a distinctive directorial voice defined by its ability to render the natural world with a transcendent, mystical quality. Whether capturing the rugged landscapes of The Rider , the contemplative wanderings of her Oscar-winning Nomadland , or even the cosmic scope of her Marvel entry, Eternals , her films consistently elevate the prosaic aspects of everyday life into something deeply profound. This aesthetic sensibility is arguably the most compelling

Rian Johnson's third installment in the Benoit Blanc franchise, Wake Up Dead Man, serves as a pointed thematic and aesthetic correction to the sun-drenched, vacation-mystery tone of its predecessor, Glass Onion. This new film is characterized by a chilly, overcast atmosphere, immersing the audience in an entertaining but noticeably darker world where every shadow eventually meets a sliver of light. Drawing inspiration from classic "locked door mysteries" such as The Hollow Ma

Universal Pictures delivered a stunning victory to the struggling North American box office with the spectacular opening of its Thanksgiving tentpole, Wicked: For Good . The film, the second installment in the ambitious big-screen adaptation of the iconic Broadway musical, premiered to a record-smashing $147 million in North America from 4,115 theaters, according to finalized Monday actuals. This figure, though slightly lower than Sunday's preliminary $150 million estimate,

The central concept driving the Tokyo-set dramedy Rental Family —the existence of businesses that hire actors to fulfill essential roles in clients' lives, such as wedding guests or estranged relatives—presents a premise fraught with potential saccharine melodrama. However, under the elegant direction of Hikari, and anchored by a nuanced, melancholic script co-written by Hikari and Stephen Blahut, the film transcends its potentially "cringey" setup. Bolstered by tender and fi

Edgar Wright’s latest endeavor, a frenetic remake of The Running Man —based on the Stephen King novel about a deadly, televised game show where citizens are hunted by assassins—launches at a relentless pace that rarely eases. This constant velocity successfully provides a powerful endorphin rush, allowing the film to steamroll over issues of plausibility and prevent the audience from examining its sociopolitical worldview too closely. In many ways, this lack of probing is ben

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a breathtaking artistic coup and an exhilarating work, forging a film that feels both profoundly familiar and richly, strangely new from a story the world thought it had exhausted. The film is a spectacular cinematic achievement, successfully creating something almost new and definitely rich and strange out of a story we all thought we knew well. Del Toro achieves this success by clinging closely to the spirit of the 19th-century source m

Joachim Trier's masterful drama, Sentimental Value , commences with two scenes that immediately establish the film's thematic core. The prologue introduces an imaginative child's essay that personifies a family home, questioning whether it feels happiness when "its belly is full of life" or experiences pain when a window is slammed. This contemplation on history and memory is swiftly followed by a scene featuring an actress on the brink of an emotional collapse just before he

Clint Bentley’s magnificent film, Train Dreams , functions as a profound drama of echoes, intertwining the dualities of life and death across generations. At its thematic core is the train itself, a symbol representing both the relentless march of progress and the destruction it necessarily leaves in its wake. The railroad tracks that rapidly expanded across the United States in the 20th century simultaneously shrank the world by connecting distant communities and irrevocably

Yorgos Lanthimos presents a casually sardonic black comedy, Bugonia , which, despite its dark themes, may be his most immediately accessible film to date. The picture employs two blunt instruments to hasten the end of the dying world: a deeply paranoid beekeeper named Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and a craven biomedical CEO, Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone). Teddy, who is sweaty, dirty, and prone to salacious remarks, teams up with his impressionable cousin Donny (Aidan Delbis) to kidna

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