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Focus Features / Jaclyn Martinez / SBS Productions … The 15 Indie Films to Put on Your 2023 Watch List
Here are the most noteworthy movies to come out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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Netflix; The Atlantic What Is It About Pamela Anderson?
The model and actor drove men wild. She’s still enduring the consequences.
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Phobymo / Universal Pictures Knock at the Cabin and the Terror of Raising Children
M. Night Shyamalan understands how to make a ludicrous horror concept work: Add in a healthy dose of tenderness.
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RB / Bauer-Griffin / Getty; The Atlantic Never Underestimate Jennifer Coolidge
Even before her comeback, the actor excelled at humanizing characters who were written as mere laughingstocks.
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Neon Films Infinity Pool Isn’t Just Another Satire of the Ultra-Wealthy
But the gory, existential horror film can’t keep up with its own premise.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic The Oscar Nominations Are In, and a Few Big Trends Are Out
The competition is more genuinely surprising than it has been in years.
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Neon Films A Courtroom Drama With an Indecipherable Culprit
Saint Omer turns a true crime into a complicated elegy.
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Murray Garrett / Getty Hollywood Cannot Survive Without Movie Theaters
Why is this so hard for studios to believe?
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Screen Gems A Slick Mystery That Takes Place Entirely on Screens
Missing is a slick but buggy update to the genre.
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BayView Entertainment Skinamarink Is a Delightful Nightmare
The idiosyncratic horror film makes use of one of the scariest devices: a story with more questions than answers.
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Christopher Polk / NBC / Getty The Speeches That Saved the Golden Globes
If the show succeeded, it was thanks to the likes of Michelle Yeoh, Jennifer Coolidge, and Ke Huy Quan.
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A Disability Film Unlike Any Other
I Didn’t See You There depicts, with a hypnotic realism, life from the perspective of a disabled person.
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Geoffrey Short / Universal Pictures M3GAN’s Killer-Robot Doll Is Just What 2023 Needs
The zany horror film is as self-aware as the sentient android at its center.
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Michael Gibson / MGM Studios When a Single Conversation Can Mean Life or Death
Sarah Polley’s new film, Women Talking, is about “ending a world and creating a new one”—all in the space of a single debate.
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Netflix The Mind-Boggling Grandeur of White Noise
The film is sharply funny, eerily timely, and loaded with movie stars. So why is this blockbuster-size event falling flat?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages
In Avatar, the fictional language Na’vi is built on a painstakingly detailed world.
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The Atlantic; Erik Carter / The New York … Rian Johnson’s Primal Scream
The Glass Onion director on why his sequel to Knives Out is louder and angrier
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20th Century Studios The Avatar Sequel’s Worst Character Actually Does the Film a Service
A (partial) defense of the most ridiculous addition to the franchise
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Scott Garfield / Paramount The Dizzying Debauchery of Babylon
Damien Chazelle’s new film is an extravaganza of caustic misery and overflowing movie magic.
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A24; The Atlantic ‘No One Wants to Talk About Mortality’
The British director Joanna Hogg on death, mothers, and the allure of memoir movies
