The History of Concrete (John Wilson, 2026) 4½ out of 5 stars Have you ever heard of the old idiom “this is like watching paint dry”? A classic phrase to describe an act that will most certainly bore you to tears. With that idea in mind, hearing about filmmaker John Wilson’s new documentary The History […]
Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Debut” will open the Middleburg Film Festival. A Q&A will follow with the film’s star Julianne Moore. “The Debut” follows Moore as Mona Friedman, a housewife who lands a small role in a community theater production and transforms into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity […]
39th Annual Virginia Film Festival to Feature Gray in Person Following a Special Screening of His New Film PAPER TIGER CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – Friday, September 18, […]
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Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing’s latest role puts her at the center of an unusual dynamic: a Chinese caregiver drawn into the fixation of an aging, stroke-paralyzed Japanese widower. “Diary of a Mad Old Man,” Wayne Wang’s adaptation of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s 1961 novel, is having its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in the gala […]
“The Age of Goodbyes” begins, in more ways than one, with a curse. In Li Zi Shu’s sprawling Malaysian Chinese novel, a family is said to be marked by early death; in Edmund Yeo’s screen adaptation, in the Special Presentations section of the Toronto Film Festival, that curse becomes the hinge on which five decades […]
Resident Evil (Zach Cregger, 2026) 3 out of 5 stars After a string of mediocre film adaptations over the last two decades, fans of the Resident Evil video games have gotten used to disappointment. But now, co-writer/director Zach Cregger (Weapons) offers a different approach. He embraces the series’ nightmarish visuals for a thrilling but slightly […]
Fjord (Cristian Mungiu, 2026) 4½ out of 5 stars Norway is a beautiful country with majestic landscapes, home today to a people steeped in progressive Western European principles, its violent Viking past a distant memory. In Fjord, the latest film from Romanian writer/director Cristian Mungiu (Graduation)—who won his second Cannes Palme d’Or in May of […]
The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has announced the first-ever Korea visit by Alfonso Cuarón, alongside a dedicated spotlight on nine films from European women and genderqueer filmmakers. Cuarón, who has won the Academy Award for best director twice, for “Gravity” (2013) and “Roma” (2018), also holds the Venice Film Festival’s best screenplay prize […]