Few things in this world are worse than a bad ending. It ruins what would be an otherwise pleasant experience, turning it into an unsavory memory. Sometimes, the films that precede these bad endings are already awful, so their flawed climaxes surprise …
Netflix hasn’t found much middle ground when it comes to high-profile original films. The projects produced by the streaming studio have typically been critical darlings that generate heaps of awards buzz (i.e., Mank or Roma) or forgettable flops that …
Sometimes a film can be so beautiful to see and hear that those elements make up for its shortcomings in other areas. More than a few Hollywood filmmakers have created wildly successful careers out of that formula, and it also looms large over the Netf…
Riley Stearns’ dark satire Dual brings his signature form of dry, deadpan humor to a story about a woman in the not-too-far future who’s forced to battle her own clone to the death in order to decide who lives out the rest of her life. It’s a fascinati…
Over the course of his career, Richard Linklater has established himself as the unofficial American master of the “hangout movie.” In films like Dazed and Confused and Everybody Wants Some!! Linklater has lovingly recreated eras that have been los…
Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to have won Best Director at the Academy Awards. But it’s been half a decade since Bigelow made her last film. Fortunately, her career hiatus is over. Via The Hollywood Reporter, Bigelow has signed a deal to direct a …