Browsing: Review

Not long after news first emerged three years ago that Alex Gibney had begun work on an in-depth study of Elon Musk, the uber-tech bro went on the defensive on his social media platform, Twitter. Sorry, I mean X. “It’s a hit piece,” he cried, before switching to the totally mature “Gibney is a douche.”…

As a general rule, I find it easy to want to like Zillennial hangout comedies, even when I initially do not. Having once been 20something and incredibly annoying about it myself, I’m inclined to give my younger self’s TV counterparts the benefit of the doubt for their abrasive edges or bratty posturing. Sometimes, my patience…

“Hope” is acted and paced with the gravity of a grand spectacle, but its content is closer to the string of early 21st century genre films that either spiritually or directly adapted video games. It’s not necessarily a bad formula; monster movies have been around forever, and a filmmaker of Na Hong-jin’s talent certainly has…

The Row, the new documentary from Bryan Fogel, does for open-sea rowing what the Oscar-winning Free Solo did for unassisted rock climbing, offering an intense yet meditative glimpse into the extremes people push themselves to in hopes of a catharsis that might have instead been achieved from a rigorous course of therapy.

Furies counts George Clooney among its executive producers — worth noting for the clout factor but mainly as a point of comparison: Rami Kodeih’s extraordinary first feature might be called an anti-Ocean’s heist picture, as rough-and-tumble as the starry franchise is slick. Propelled by a raw, heart-pounding ferocity, the Beirut-set drama is a sharp fusion…