Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan and Halle Berry star in Bart Layton's adaptation of Don Winslow's source material. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
A delightfully chaotic Sam Rockwell leads a motley crew of skittish recruits against a future in peril in Gore Verbinski’s over-the-top anti-AI screed Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. When a man suddenly appears in a late-night diner looking like...
By one estimate, more than 550,000 people have lost their lives to the opioid epidemic over the first quarter of the 21st century. That number doubles or even triples when it includes those who’ve fallen prey to opioid addiction...
Laura Carreira talks about translating lived research into formal precision, articulating a contemporary vision of social realism shaped by migrant labour, algorithmic control and structural precarity. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
After competing for the Golden Bear back in 2018 with The Heiress (read review), Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi returns to the Berlinale with the birth of authoritarianism and how one artist was snuffed out during the brutal dictatorship circa 1959....
THE STORY – A man claiming to be from the future takes the patrons of an iconic West Hollywood diner hostage in search of unlikely recruits in a quest to save the world. THE CAST – Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson,...
After examining Israeli life and identity with the Golden Bear winner Synonyms and his Cannes winner Ahed’s Knee, Nadav Lapid calls out his country’s rising nationalism post-October 7 in his daring new satire, Yes. It premiered at last year’s Cannes...
Returning to the festival circuit last year with some of the most acclaim of his career, Sergei Loznitsa’s Cannes premiere Two Prosectuors will now get a U.S. release beginning March 20. Ahead of the debut, Janus Films has unveiled the...
2025 was a year that, in many ways, can be charitably described as “not good.” Checking the news daily felt like high-intensity cardio, and that applies to both updates from the geopolitical world and the film industry. In a year...
Like its main character’s modus operandi as a criminal, the film plays by the book. The post ‘Crime 101’ Review: Bart Layton’s Crime Thriller Goes Through the Procedural Motions appeared first on Slant Magazine.