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Jonathan Wenk / Focus Features / Everett Collection What It’s Like Making Your First Film After 18 Years in ‘Movie Jail’
Mimi Leder, best known as one of the great TV directors, talks about her new Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic and why it took so long to return to the big screen.
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Netflix What Netflix Is Learning From the Massive Success of Bird Box
The streaming service’s surprise hit connected with audiences despite middling reviews and a glut of Christmas content to compete with.
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Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP How the Middling Green Book Became an Oscars Front-Runner
Peter Farrelly’s film has taken over 2019’s awards season despite mounting controversies, critical disinterest, and mediocre ticket sales.
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Universal Glass Is M. Night Shyamalan at His Weirdest
The latest from the director is a singularly strange and meta sequel that’s bound to infuriate all but his most devoted fans.
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Ted Thai / Getty How James Baldwin’s Writings About Love Evolved
The author is best known for arguing that emotional connection could help heal America’s racial divides. But his 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk focused instead on the bonds that held black people together.
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Fox / Warner Bros. Bohemian Rhapsody, A Star Is Born, and the Myth of Authenticity
The upset Golden Globes victory of one music drama over another hints at which is the more comforting retelling of the same rock-and-roll narrative.
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Sony Pictures / Reuters / Walt Disney Studios ... 25 Movies to Look Forward to in 2019
Captain Marvel, The Lion King, Joker, Little Women, plus the usual slew of sequels (and some exciting original projects)
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Golden Globes Just Threw a Wrench Into the Oscars Race
The presumed awards-season front-runner, A Star Is Born, failed to win big, while Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody took home the top trophies.
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Getty Images Sandra Oh Wins a Golden Globe—And the Night
The ceremony’s co-host, who also picked up a trophy, embodied the best of the evening: warmth, sincerity, and a willingness to recognize the many contributions made by creators of color.
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Mary Cybulski / 20th Century Fox Can You Ever Forgive Me? and the True Nature of Being a Writer
Based on the memoir of a literary forger, the film sets up a poignant argument about what it takes to be an artist—only to upend that idea in its final scenes.
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Disney Enterprises, Inc. The Dark Magic of Mary Poppins Returns
The 21st century’s answer to the 20th-century classic updates its story for a time that is uneasy with simple solutions.
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Annapurna Destroyer Is a Murder Mystery That Seeks to Upend Your Expectations
The acclaimed director Karyn Kusama discusses her new film, working with Nicole Kidman, and emerging from “movie jail.”
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Zeza Filmes / Courtesy of Cinema Libre Studio The Modern Dignity of an Uncontacted Tribe
The documentary Piripkura explores the resolve of indigenous people who persist in the forests of Brazil despite shifting circumstance.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic* A Year of Miseducation
From Lauryn Hill to Cameron Post to Tara Westover, 2018 repeatedly asked the question, What does it mean to teach a person to surrender?
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Fox The Blunt-Force Power of Widows, in One Scene
The Atlantic looks back on the key film moments of 2018, this time a highly metaphorical unbroken shot in Steve McQueen’s heist thriller.
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Well Go USA The Mysterious Conversation That Creates an Obsession in Burning
The Atlantic looks back on the key film moments of 2018, this time a strange, possibly imaginary confession in Lee Chang-dong’s woozy thriller.
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Warner Bros. A Star Is Born Finds Movie Magic in a Parking Lot
The Atlantic looks back on the key film moments of 2018, this time a spontaneous bit of songwriting in Bradley Cooper’s romantic musical drama.
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Paramount A Mission: Impossible Fake-Out for the Ages
The Atlantic looks back on the key film moments of 2018, this time a satisfying rug-pull from Christopher McQuarrie’s latest entry in the long-running spy franchise.
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Reuters / YouTube The Disturbing Truth About Kevin Spacey’s ‘Let Me Be Frank’ Video
The actor, accused of misconduct by more than 30 men, may believe that talent and fame can save him from public disgrace. It’s not a crazy notion.
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Bleecker Street Leave No Trace Shows How to Critique Society—Without Demonizing an Entire System
The Atlantic looks back on the key film moments of 2018, this time a wrenching interview with a survivalist war veteran in Debra Granik’s drama.
