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...

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...

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...

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...

Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” now in theaters via Mubi, opens with a card touting its Best Screenplay win at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The movie that follows led me to call the Cannes...

The experience of watching Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” is best encapsulated by a line that Owen, the film’s main character, utters early on. “It feels,” he says, “like someone took...

The logline for “Love Lies Bleeding,” the latest film from “Saint Maud” director Rose Glass, is simple: Lou, a listless gym manager, and Jackie, a competitive bodybuilder, find their romance disrupted...

In the 1890s, when cinema was in its infancy, audiences were enraptured by a particular genre of silent film known as the “phantom ride.” To make these movies, filmmakers attached a camera to the front...

Raise your hand if you were personally victimized by the new “Mean Girls” movie. I currently have my hand raised. With the raging success of the original 2004 film and the Broadway show, the...

It has been quite some time since a true romantic comedy has been released in theaters, but Will Gluck’s “Anyone But You” has taken the media by storm since its release on Christmas Day. Sydney...

In December 1983, a thin man in an ill-fitting white-gray suit walks onto a stage. He carries with him a guitar and a boombox, which he carefully sets on the ground. He adjusts the guitar strap around...