On Jan. 7, 2025, almost two weeks before “Wolf Man” entered theaters, Universal Pictures released the full werewolf transformation on social media. This was a puzzling move from the studio, as the...

In his review of Milos Forman’s 1984 film “Amadeus,” Roger Ebert opines on the difference between greatness and near-greatness. “True geniuses,” he says, “rarely take their own work seriously,...

Greg Kwedar’s “Sing Sing” initially premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival. Due to a confusing distribution strategy from A24, however, it took until January of this year to arrive in Greenville,...

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” which was recently nominated for an obscene 13 Academy Awards, is a fascinating movie largely because of how bad it is. Even discounting its myriad thematic issues,...

In May 2021, right after the conclusion of the smash hit animated series “Castlevania,” Netflix announced that a spinoff of the series — set 300 years later during the French Revolution — would...

In August of 2014, James Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” marked the up-and-coming director’s first foray into the world of Marvel comic superheroes. The movie's instant success and the success...

More so than any other year in recent memory, I felt completely disconnected from the general moviegoing audience in 2024. The big studio blockbusters I liked underperformed, while the ones I hated or...

In a recent article, Variety awards writer Clayton Davis attempted to predict which five lucky individuals will be nominated for best director at the 2025 Academy Awards. Among his predictions are some,...

The term “Oscar bait” is thrown around carelessly in film discussions, applied to essentially any movie that doesn’t have Batman in it. It’s become such a broad classification that it sometimes...

Todd Phillips seems to have fallen short of audience expectations with his latest film “Joker: Folie à Deux,” the follow-up to his 2019 film “Joker.” In stark contrast to its predecessor’s high...

Near the end of Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” Mike Faist’s disgruntled tennis pro Art Donaldson tosses the ball into the air. This in and of itself is unremarkable — it’s a tennis movie,...

In the second scene of Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating magnum opus “Megalopolis,” protagonist Cesar Catalina stumbles onto a scaffold, towers over a model city and manically recites the entire...