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Bunny King (Essie Davis) walks home after a long day squeegeeing car windshields at a busy intersection. She’s made a couple of bucks. She puts the money into a big glass jar of coins and hides...

It’s a funny thing, writing about video games for a publication named after Roger Ebert, who famously claimed video games would never be as artistically worthy as movies or literature (though he famously walked back that...

Every lamp and ladylike cocktail dress, every convertible and clink of a martini glass is a perfect reflection of retro chic in Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling.” Who wouldn’t want to live in the suburban Shangri-la...

There’s no shortage of filmmakers who have cut their teeth on music videos before pursuing feature-length films—Michael Bay, Spike Jonze, Hype Williams, David Fincher, and Autumn de Wilde to name just a few. This year’s Toronto International...

Two of the finest films receiving their U.S. release this year each provide riveting showcases for Essie Davis, the brilliant Australian actress who earned international raves for her star turn in Jennifer Kent’s 2014 modern horror...

After watching the series premiere of “The Book of Boba Fett,” my son asked me why every “Star Wars” show was set in the desert. I didn’t have a good answer for him. Of course, “The...

We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the September 2022 edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their theme this month is “Time Travel,” and in addition to the excerpted essay below by Lindsey Romain on “Donnie Darko,” the...

The Chicago International Film Festival—the longest running competitive film fest in North America, mind you—just announced its full line-up for this year’s 58th edition. The opening night selection is Steve James’ “A Compassionate Spy,” and the closing film will...

Hulu pretends to add more to the algorithm-friendly mania of TV reboots (from “Fuller House” to “Quantum Leap” to “Beavis & Butthead”) with “Reboot,” a witty meta series from Steven Levitan (the co-creator of “Modern Family”). In its...

Explorations of identity, celebrity, and our own oral histories often make compelling cinema. At this year’s festival three films tackled these themes within three very different genres. In documentarian Alice Diop’s first fiction film “Saint Omer,”...