This year at the movies, you’d be forgiven for thinking you are seeing double — because you are. Since March there have been three films featuring...
‘Companion’ Stream it on Max. The less you know about Drew Hancock’s whip smart thriller-comedy, the harder its sinister detours will hit. At first glance, Iris...
In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the...
“Hi, My name is Gavin O’Connor, and I’m the director of “Accountant 2.” So this scene takes place deep into the second act of the movie....
It has not always been necessary to read the book in order to write a book report, as many a devious middle schooler familiar with CliffsNotes...
Masahiro Shinoda, a leading director of the postwar Japanese New Wave whose films, notably “Pale Flower” and “Double Suicide,” fused pictorial beauty and fetishistic violence, died...
Brimming with action archetypes — the grizzled hero, the upstart deputy, renegade police, a crooked politician and young lovers on the run — the writer-director Gareth...
This first section is a prelude. On Lunar Near Year, sudden tragedy strikes the massage parlor. It happens so abruptly, and with so little cinematic heralding,...
A New York City documentary crew sets up shop in rural Argentina in “Magic Farm,” an Americans-abroad satire that teeters between pop treat and indie trifle....
Watching someone play a video game that they never let you play is a singular kind of boring. A similar “why am I here?” dullness arrives...
