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Warner Bros. What Christopher Nolan Gets Right About Netflix
The Dunkirk director has been loudly dismissive of the company’s policy on theatrical releases—but he’s really just arguing for a different streaming model.
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Warner Bros. The Brutal Cynicism of Lost in America Still Resonates
Albert Brooks’s 1985 satire of two upper-middle-class Californians trying to find themselves is as cutting as ever in its Criterion rerelease.
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Warner Bros Harry Styles and Rihanna Nail the Pop Star as Actor
Dunkirk and Valerian had two highly contrasting kinds of crossovers—and Game of Thrones could have taken a lesson from either.
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Amazon Studios Landline: A Melancholy '90s Romantic Dramedy
Gillian Robespierre’s follow-up to the 2014 hit Obvious Child retains its star Jenny Slate, this time putting her at the center of a dysfunctional family.
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Warner Bros. Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk Is a Masterpiece
Epic yet intimate, the director's new war film is boldly experimental and visually stunning.
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EuropaCorp / STX Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Is a One-of-a-Kind Space Odyssey
Luc Besson’s new sci-fi epic is a visual sensation that deserves to be seen on the biggest screen possible.
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Columbia / Gaumont How The Fifth Element Subverted Sci-Fi Movies
Twenty years ago, Luc Besson’s visually stunning film hinged its story not on action or violence, but on love.
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Disney A Wrinkle in Time Defies Disney’s Sequel-Filled Future
Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s book is one of the studio’s only upcoming movies that’s not a follow-up or a remake.
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Netflix To the Bone: The Trouble With Anorexia on Film
The new Netflix movie illustrates how hard it is to responsibly portray a mental-health disorder that has morbidly fascinated culture for centuries.
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Roadside Attractions Lady Macbeth Is a Brilliant, Macabre Period Drama
William Oldroyd’s debut film, based on a Russian novel, is a surprising tale of murder and infidelity in rural Victorian England.
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Fox War for the Planet of the Apes Is an Epic Slog
The third entry in this revamped series is a technical accomplishment, but a storytelling drag.
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Warner Bros. Why Hollywood Should Pay Attention to Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan’s war epic will be rolled out nationwide in 70-millimeter projection, which could be an intriguing answer to audiences’ declining interest in 3-D.
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A24 A Ghost Story Is a Haunting Modern Fable
David Lowery’s new film stars Casey Affleck as an old-fashioned ghost who can’t leave his life behind.
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Sony Pictures Spider-Man: Homecoming Is One of the Best Superhero Movies in Years
Sony's collaboration with Marvel Studios gets so many things right, it’s almost difficult to list them all.
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Paramount Pictures Hollywood Has a Bad-Movie Problem
Domestic audiences are rejecting this summer’s procession of tired sequels, and international grosses won’t be enough to keep studios afloat forever.
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Sony / TriStar Baby Driver Is a Rare Heist Movie With a Heart
Edgar Wright’s latest film is easy to dismiss as an exercise in style, but he’s both paying homage to, and subverting, the morality of the getaway driver.
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Gunpowder & Sky The Little Hours Is an Alt-Comedy Gone Medieval
Jeff Baena’s new film juxtaposes foul-mouthed 21st-century humor with bawdy tales from the Middle Ages.
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Warner Bros. Will Ferrell Needs to Be Weird Again
Films like The House, which cast the actor as a frustrated suburban everyman, are a waste of his unique comic talents.
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Wilson Webb / TriStar Pictures Baby Driver Is a Tribute to the Magic of the Earbud
Edgar Wright’s car-chase caper explores the wonders—and the dangers—of everyone having their own soundtrack.
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Netflix Netflix’s Okja Is a Must-See Fable About a Super-Pig
The sublime new film from Bong Joon-ho, who directed Snowpiercer, follows a young Korean girl’s relationship with a genetically enhanced farm animal.
