This generation’s Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure has arrived in PROBLEMISTA
Julio Torres has concocted one of the best directorial debuts in recent memory
Category: Film
DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS needs to turn up the volume
The Farrelly brothers, The Safdie Brothers, The Wachowski sisters – there’s no shortage of sibling director duos who have parted ways, either permanently or temporarily, to experiment on solo works. The Coen brothers joined their ranks with Joel Coen’s solo-directed film The Tragedy of Macbeth in 2021. If The Tragedy of Macbeth might have given any clue as to who the “serious one” of the duo was, Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls seems designed to give an equally emphatic answer as to the source of the duo’s comedic chops.
DUNE: PART TWO is 2024’s first Best Picture contender
The delayed sequel marks a huge improvement on the first in almost every way.
OPPENHEIMER leads with 13 nominations for this year’s Academy Awards
Nolan’s latest notches the second largest nomination haul ever.
OPPENHEIMER sweeps Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC) 2023 Awards
Christopher Nolan’s film dominates and remains a clear favorite for Oscar glory
Killers of the Flower Moon: a long journey worth taking
Our review of the latest from Martin Scorsese, an adaptation of David Grann’s acclaimed book about the turn of the century crimes against the Osage Nation
The Exorcist: Believer, another David Gordon Green flop
David Gordon Green has done it again. What’s that? Make another crappy horror film, that’s what!
The Top 5 Films of TIFF
Our picks for the five best films that played this year’s Toronto International Film Festival
From best film to biggest letdown, the TIFF 2023 standouts
ScreenRex highlights five examples of creative work at TIFF that caught us off guard, for better or for worse
5 TIFF Films Directed by Actors – ranked
If you had to summarize the biggest trend at the Toronto Film Festival this year – apart from the effects of both writers and actors being on strike – it might be that 2023 was the year many actors made the jump to directing.
Transmissions from TIFF v3: Monster, Hell of a Summer, Poolman, Evil Does Not Exist
Our next set of reviews from TIFF; inclusive of films by Chris Pine, Finn Wolfhard, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Hirokazu Kore-eda
Transmissions from TIFF v2: The Zone of Interest, Woman of the Hour, The Holdovers, Seven Veils
Our latest set of reviews from TIFF include new films from Jonathan Glazer, Anna Kendrick, Alexander Payne, and Atom Egoyan
Transmissions from TIFF 2023: The Boy and The Heron, North Star, Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World, and The Dead Don’t Hurt
In our first set of reviews from this years Toronto International Film Festival, we look at the latest from Hayao Miyazaki, Radu Jude, Viggo Mortensen, and the directorial debut of Kristen Scott Thomas
OPPENHEIMER changes the definition of a Nolan film
Christopher Nolan has made some of my favorite movies of all time. But every filmmaker has weaknesses, and over the years Nolan’s have crystallized.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE, a victim of its own success
The new espionage spectacle from Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie largely brings the thrills you’re looking for, but trouble is on the horizon