It’s easy to write off a movie like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, so married as it is to the neon tackiness of the early 1990s; it’s much harder to recognize that placing itself squarely into that context is an extraordinary device. Read More
On Fantastic Mr. Fox and the contradictory, complementary visions of Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl. Read More
Uncut Gems is itself an uncut gem—jagged and terrifying on the outside, yet encompassing a startlingly beautiful and cosmic humanism within. Read More
Sometimes, the only thing a woman can do is let herself be seen on her own terms. Read More
In probing the depth of Jesus’s humanity, Martin Scorsese makes the sacrifice of Christ all the more fulfilling, real, tortured, and true. Read More
Whether by accident or instinct, Carnival of Souls captures a sense of alienation. And the film itself, fiercely independent, with a singular vision, experienced a similar outcome as its protagonist. Read More
A Journey Through The Funky Fanfare of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Read More
Kelsey Ford on murder mysteries, gentleman sleuths, and Rian Johnson's Knives Out. Read More
Instead of taking issue with the facts of what Frank Sheeran tells us, The Irishman unravels the way he positions himself within his account. Read More
Only one movie has ever managed to recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation as through transmutation. Read More
I avoided both Heat and Jackie Brown until 2019. I recognize that this is irrational self-sabotage. It is, in this case, especially irrational behavior given that my number-one all-time celebrity crush is mid-‘90s Robert De Niro. Read More
Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged. Read More