Telluride is not on my annual festival calendar—too distant, too costly—and I’m at Toronto rarely, only with a film. So as a ...

Kicking and Screaming (1995), writer-director Noah Baumbach, having crafted a notable career both in Hollywood and outside of ...

By conventional measures, the 2020s have not been very good for the movies. At mid-decade, there’s the nagging sense that the ...

Released 30 years ago, Michael Mann’s Heat is an almost-three-hour-long odyssey through Los Angeles and the minds of two ...

In Netflix’s A House of Dynamite, the United States’ government and military chain of commands scramble to respond as a ...

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things required a full calendar year of production in Atlanta, a marathon of 240 ...

Toward the end of my interview with Gregg Araki, I remind him of his scene from Michael Almereyda and Amy Hobby’s 1995 ...

After I put my kid to sleep, I found myself standing by the window, looking out over the valley of apartment buildings. The ...

Tessa Thompson has a predilection for playing fiercely ambitious women. Against all odds, her characters stand firmly in ...

In January, I’ll teach another version of my favorite class, “Creative Critical Writing,” a graduate writing workshop ...

A tutor and a free spirit fall in love in sixteenth-century Stratford, but then Will (Paul Mescal) leaves Agnes (Jesse ...

Ronald Bronstein premiered his feature Frownland at South by Southwest the same year as Josh Safdie’s short We’re Going to ...