Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the worst things about Hollywood is the way that it concentrates location shooting in a single town. And one of the best things about American independent movies, especially in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Somewhere in the mountainous region of northern Sichuan, a young woman harvests soybeans alone in a field. She cuts through the beanstalks with a sickle and stuffs them into a wicker…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the corner of the social-media universe that calls itself #ufotwitter, there’s always some new piece of visual evidence to discuss. Did a police body cam catch an otherworldly craft crash-landing…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On Monday morning, the actor Angus Cloud died at his family’s home in Oakland. (The cause of death is not yet known, but TMZ, which broke the news, reported that Cloud’s…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In Barbieland, as envisioned in “Barbie,” the writer-director Greta Gerwig presents a world where positions of power are held by female dolls such as a Black President Barbie and a Filipina…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Rachels Don’t Run” is insular and intimate in its setting but vast in what it has to say about loneliness and why we seek connection. In a world of shifting, new…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The veteran French filmmaker Claire Simon’s new documentary, “Our Body,” explores the lives of patients and doctors in a women’s hospital in Paris. Nearly three hours long, it is a work…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I hope Paul Reubens was well enough to see “Barbie” before he died this past Sunday, at the age of seventy, following six years of privately battling cancer. Greta Gerwig’s spectacularly…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The sole skyscraper in central Paris celebrated its fiftieth anniversary recently, though “celebrate” may not be le mot juste. When the city’s official Twitter account wished the Tour Montparnasse (“Montparnasse Tower”)…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The latest comics-to-film adaptation, “Shortcomings,” Randall Park’s directorial début, will be released on August 4th. It is based on Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel of the same name, which was one of…
