Lush, lively, and luxuriant, Ridley Scott’s high-fashion tale walks a tightrope between campy nighttime soap and insightful true-crime drama with nary a wobble.
Most of the films made before 1950 are lost. A tenacious group is working to rediscover them, and bring them back to public view.
Marc Mohan at the movies: Branagh recalls his childhood during the Troubles; a political bio puts things in and leaves things out; some short streaming gems.
Marc Mohan at the movies: From audacious revivals to the Houses of Windsor and Marvel.
A clear-eyed view of the city’s swinging scene and the turmoil under the glamour, with fine performances by its young stars and a trio of ’60s veterans.
What’s old is bold: Lavine’s screen series is bringing famous and obscure gems back to life.
Wes Anderson’s “Dispatch” is about as Wes Anderson as a movie can be. And Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the Victorian polymath Wain, an artist who paints psychedelic cats.
Ridley Scott directs a Rashomon-like 14th century tale; marriage neo-Bergman style; a soccer team’s rescue.
It’s their baby (but is it human?); a feel-good film about a transgender child; Daniel Craig’s final go-round.
If this is (almost) October, it must be horror and Halloween and Lovecraft time. Plus, a Breathless bit of history.
A charming “Los Lobos” at the Latin fest; an Argentine apocalypse; CineMagic scares; Schrader’s new deal.
In a trio of noteworthy new movies, the eyes (and the people behind them) have it.
An appreciation of two great actors, plus a catfishing Juliette Binoche, a Hong Kong thriller, and more.
The virtual-reality extravaganza has bright moments, but is often brought down by … technology.
A feast of films by a legendary director of “indelibly weird classics”; return of a Portland women’s film fest.
A remake of a 1992 horror flick strikes a vein of fear and blood in the long history of American racial violence.
“From the get-go, the portrayal of this family feels as authentic as any glimpse into deaf culture I’ve seen on screen.”
A lavish portrait of a “hot mess” heroine; a look beyond the tabloids at Billy Tipton; a sexy, updated “Snow White.”
Adam Driver in a busy musical, a searing documentary about news in the sky, a tale of philosophical gravy.
A new movie of a very old tale creates a world of foreboding, romanticism, and sometimes cheeky fun.
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