Robuta

“Too slapdash to get a handle on, like Coen and Cooke started shooting before they’d figured out what story they were trying to tell. There are some...

“This breathless tumble of incident is paced very much like the second act of a Broadway musical, hurtling along trying to cram in a few more tunes and wrap...

“Keaton is incandescent in the film, an instant icon in her wide-brimmed hats and men’s ties. Alvy jokes about her black soap and adult education classes,...

“I’m not sure I’ve seen a project that more overtly typifies the corporate fanboy Alamo Drafthouse sensibility I find so off-putting, a celebration of...

“Jonsson is such a marvelous actor that his camaraderie with Hoffman elevates everything around them. These boys bantering and bonding on their journey...

“First-time screenwriter Ben Shattuck adapted his short story himself, and the rookie mistake with The History Of Sound is that it’s entirely...

“An expert use of Stamp’s ethereal presence. The more serene he is, the more it throws Braddock off his game. The elder assassin starts making stupid...

“Though it’s a major studio release with big stars, Roofman has the low-key vibe of an indie from the early aughts. The 35mm cinematography and easy...

“A breakthrough for Wenders, codifying the dreamy, sentimental existentialism that became his signature. The director can be glimpsed at a diner jukebox...

“Del Toro has always had more affinity for his monsters than men, and Elordi’s tender creature is so much more interesting than Isaac’s off-putting,...

“The 89-year-old Allen’s debut novel is tangy and bitter, slipping an amusingly corrosive one-liner into just about every paragraph. The man is still a...

“Every scene in director Mary Bronstein’s sophomore effort is a mini-anxiety attack, rattling in extreme closeups on star Rose Byrne while a cacophonous...

“A fascinating peek behind the curtain, a look at filmmaking as it actually happens, and all the boredom and frustration that entails. The film was made with...

“So much of Ordinary People has been codified into pop culture cliché it can be difficult to imagine how startling the film must have seemed at the time....

“A four-seater plane transporting Mitchum to the movie’s Bridgeport location lost its brakes and crashed through a fence into an outhouse. The actor...

“Linklater turns the unorthodox production of Breathless into one of his ramshackle hangout comedies like Dazed And Confused or Everybody Wants Some!!,...

“Spielberg’s most Altman-esque movie, casting a wary eye on institutions his later pictures would exalt. The mayor from Jaws became such a popular meme...

“He writes like he’s jabbing a finger in your chest while he’s telling you a story. That he’s somehow alive, sober and still making films at the age of...

“Reichardt has been teaching film at Bard College since 2006, and her bone dry dismantling of macho heist picture fantasies got me and a friend imagining an...

“Lancaster’s crisp elocution was never put to more satisfyingly sinister ends, portraying the writer as a tightly-wound, sexless automaton. Hunsecker’s...

“The nice thing about living in one of the greatest movie cities in the world is that there are more than 40 horror flicks you can go see on a giant screen...

“This is where the movie’s strange alchemy takes place, in the mundanity of the grunt work and phone calls — so many phone calls — in the spaces...

My first dispatch from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Josh Osit’s Predators, Albert Birney’s OBEX and Alireza...

“It’s a film full of heavy breathing and plunging necklines. Forget Chekov’s gun, Hedda wears the key to her father’s whole gun cabinet around her neck...

“The story of an entitled sociopath who puts a woman that loves him through hell while ruining her family’s holiday, except disguised as a twinkly-eyed...

My buddy Blake Howard called from the Adelaide Film Festival, where he’d just seen director Mike Figgis’ all-access documentary about the making of...

“We get a child’s eye view of this confusing, adult world, and a messy family melodrama only partially understood by our pint-sized protagonist. The...

”Lanthimos lingers on the squalor, leering at the ugly haircuts and bad food in irritatingly asymmetrical compositions. But as always, he’s wallowing from...

“Chopped down to 62 minutes and dubbed into English, the film played on double bills alongside something called Mixed-Up Women. Such presentations cemented...

“Such a scenario could easily have tipped into melodrama, but Bigelow has too brusque and businesslike an approach for that. There are no histrionics here,...

“Blue Moon is basically a movie about pretending to be happy at your ex’s wedding. Ethan Hawke’s tour-de-force performance runs an extraordinary gamut of...

“Stuff like McCartney praising them as musical geniuses undoes the verisimilitude that made the first film so special. It’s just being silly with celebrity...

“Director Paul Greengrass turns the white-knuckle, true-life tale of a school bus lost amid the 2018 California wildfires into a laughable pile of Hollywood...

“Another not-for-the-timid exploration of mad love and mental illness from Lynne Ramsay, a filmmaker whose movies tend to feel like fugue states. Die My Love...

“A deliberate throwback to the kind of glib, trash-talking crime pictures that proliferated in the immediate post-Pulp Fiction era when Caught Stealing takes...

“This is kiddie shit. It’s also not particularly well put together, which is surprising because director Dan Trachtenberg did such a terrific job with...

“Jay Kelly wants to be Wild Strawberries, but it’s more like Mr. Holland’s Opus. The mind reels at how the director of prickly films like Greenberg could...

“Linda Linda Linda accumulates ephemeral grace notes and wry asides before blowing the doors off with a euphoric climax of pure punk rock elation, one of the...

“Sora’s film is set at a Japanese private school in a very near future where society is waiting on tenterhooks for an earthquake that’s predicted to...

“These are the kinds of pictures where if the characters stop at a store, the shopkeeper is going to have a whole story of his own going on. They’re...

Better late than never, my buddy Blake Howard finally saw this year’s funniest film. He called me up to wax rhapsodic about the intricate design of the...

Sean Burns is a film critic for WBUR’s Arts & Culture and a contributing writer at North Shore Movies and Crooked Marquee. He was Philadelphia...

“Pontecorvo said he wanted the movie to feel like ‘a stolen historical document’ and his groundbreaking appropriation of newsreel techniques blurs the...

“Ron Howard’s lurid, misanthropic melodrama follows a doomed collection of German expats trying to forge a new utopia in the Galapagos. There’s no need...

“The flatness of the onscreen spaces matches the characters’ deadpan lack of affect, conjuring a torpid sort of vacation-mode miasma that becomes...

“As enervating a movie experience as you’ll have this year. Cartoonishly reductive and crassly fictionalized in the manner of most formula Hollywood...

“Anchored by a playful, career-topping turn from Skarsgård as a father amusingly oblivious to his own shortcomings, the touching and often very funny...

“Luca Guadagnino’s entertainingly trashy provocation pushes the audience’s buttons with fat, clumsy thumbs, tackling issues of race, elitism, power...