Category: 2025

There is a moment roughly midway through The Testament of Ann Lee when Amanda Seyfried, playing the titular role, locked in close-up, opens her mouth and sings. The camera does not cut away. It does not search the room for reaction shots or retreat to a respectful medium shot. It simply stays, for what feels…

There is a genuinely great film buried somewhere inside The Secret Agent — you can feel it most acutely in its opening hour, which crackles with the kind of lean, paranoid energy that recalls the best American thrillers of the 1970s. The setup is nothing short of genius. Armando, played by Wagner Moura, is an…

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners arrives as something genuinely rare: an original studio film with the ambition, scale, and soul to match its budget. Set in the Mississippi Delta of 1932, it is at once a horror movie, a blues musical, a Jim Crow-era family drama, and a meditation on what happens when a culture creates something so transcendently…

Some films hit you like a brick on first viewing, and One Battle After Another is one of them. It’s unruly, overstuffed, and constantly accelerating, as though the movie itself is inhaling the same frantic air as the country it depicts. But when you return to it, the film settles into clarity. All that volatility—the tonal lurches,…