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Noah Baumbach’s latest turns what could’ve been another “movie about movies” into a layered, deeply human reflection on legacy, regret, and the masks we wear to survive in both Hollywood and life.

After thirty years of planning, Guillermo del Toro breathes new life into Frankenstein — an operatic Gothic marvel that’s as emotionally rich as it is visually breathtaking.

James Vanderbilt’s   Nuremberg  delivers a haunting courtroom drama that probes the minds behind humanity’s darkest chapter. Anchored by a towering Russell Crowe performance and a chilling moral tug-of-war, the film is long, heavy, and often brilliant — even when it drags its feet. PLOT & SETUP Directed by James Vanderbilt , Nuremberg  adapts Jack El-Hai’s 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist , chronicling psychiatrist Douglas Kelley’s  (Rami Malek) psychological evaluatio

Few sports stories are as naturally cinematic as that of Christy Martin — the first woman to ever box on pay-per-view and, unintentionally, a trailblazer for women’s boxing. Christy  aims to honor that legacy, showing how a small-town fighter from West Virginia became a symbol of perseverance and empowerment. Unfortunately, the film often buries that power beneath convention and formula, opting for the expected over the profound. The film’s first act chronicles Martin’s unlik

A Bruce Springsteen biopic that confuses introspection with inertia. Deliver Me From Nowhere looks and feels authentic but struggles to find the heartbeat of its own story.

Sony Pictures Classics There’s a certain magic in watching Richard Linklater return to the intimacy of character-driven storytelling. After experimenting with bigger canvases and some other detours, Blue Moon  feels like a homecoming — not to Austin or adolescence, but to the beating heart of American artistry. The film captures one fateful New York night in 1947 — the evening Oklahoma!  opened on Broadway — and in doing so, paints a bittersweet portrait of friendship, legacy

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine  is a bruiser of a film—sweaty, unflinching, and desperate to dig into the psyche of one of...

Kathryn Bigelow has always been fascinated by the anatomy of crisis — how people behave when the clock is ticking, the stakes are...

I recently combed through the 2025 new releases that I've seen so far to come up with the movies and performances that are both some of...