Movies

A case can be made that the recent announcement of Amazon gaining creative control of the James Bond series from producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, its caretakers of the last thirty years, should be welcome news. After...

The first time the world got a good look at Rami Malek, computer screens were reflected more often than not in his distinctive peepers. As the star of “Mr. Robot,” Sam Esmail’s zeitgeisty TV series about a psychologically damaged...

‘Warfare’Written and directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, this atypical war movie follows a platoon of Navy SEALs during a calamitous mission in Iraq.From our review:The performances in “Warfare” are uniformly persuasive and restrained, except when wounded men...

There will soon be a new category at the Oscars: achievement in stunt design.Starting with movies released in 2027, for the ceremony the following year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will honor the people who make...

The action spectacle “G20” offers up an absurd fantasy: What if the president of the United States were a gunslinging, martial-arts hero? “Air Force One” (1997) may be the ur-text of this shamelessly jingoistic subgenre, but Viola Davis’s President...

In making the documentary, Macdonald et al. have taken an immersive rather than an instructional approach, one that plunges viewers into a rushing stream of moving and still images, among them home movies, concert footage, news reports and far...

Thierry Frémaux and Iris Knobloch announced the lineup for the 78th Cannes Film Festival this morning, confirming some suspicions of what would premiere this year while dashing some dreams of a few potential inclusions. The festival had already announced...

Ramy Youssef once said that the more specific something is, the more universal it becomes. His eponymous series, about the lives of Egyptian immigrants in post-9/11 America, is deeply relatable to folks whose families hail from Jamaica, Greece, India...

What role does a show about a depressing, tech-addicted future play in a depressing, tech-addicted 2025? It’s been fascinating to watch as some of the “what if” scenarios of Charlie Brooker’s influential sci-fi anthology series became reality, arguably making...

Movies directed by Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater and Ari Aster are among 19 films that will compete for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the event’s organizers announced at a news conference on Thursday.The festival’s 78th...