Movie

When science collides with geekdom, things get niche-y. But creature features have long been part of SDCC, and this year I attended a panel that brought a 1950s favorite forward (“The Science of ‘Godzilla Singular Point'”)...

James Morosini’s “I Love My Dad” grabs the eternal adage of “write what you know” and sprints towards the edge of a cliff. The story is true: Morosini’s father pretended to be someone else online in...

“Bullet Train” is an action film that could easily have been an animated movie, and often looks and feels like one. The story takes place on a bullet train careening across Japan, but most of the movie...

A modern cowboy, a Black man in an orange hoodie, sits astride a horse, facing forward in a medium shot. He points two fingers at his eyes, then points at the camera, signaling his sister—and us...

Few editors have impacted the way I view cinema as profoundly as Mary Sweeney. Her professional partnership with David Lynch, which spanned two decades, began when she served as assistant editor on his 1986 landmark, “Blue...

“Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99” is a true piece of docutainment, a documentary meant to amuse and mortify more than so much make insight about the infamous music festival that was doomed from the start. But its assembly does...

Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s FX series “Reservation Dogs” was easily one of 2021’s biggest, most welcome surprises. In a year that saw an explosion of Native-led stories on film and television—including Peacock’s “Rutherford Falls,” among...

Debuting in World Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where it won the Audience Award, Alli Haapasalo’s “Girl Picture” is an irrepressibly girly coming-of-age film. Set over three Fridays, it follows teenagers...

Some people might consider it unlucky to have to make an animated feature film during a pandemic. But the theme of “Luck,” available in theaters and on Apple TV+ on Friday, is that sometimes what feels like bad...

Zach Dorn’s animated short film “Charlotte” covers a lot of ground in its 13 minutes that when it ends, you can’t really believe it’s over. It sets itself up for a feature, with multiple generations of...