Our Hero, Balthazar: Boys Playing Men
Oscar Boyson's darkly comic debut finds two young men searching for connection in an America where even sincerity has become a performance.
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Reviews
Reviews
Rated reviews of new releases, festival films and older films worth returning to.
The Limits of Seeing
The more Elizabeth Holmes reveals, the harder she becomes to understand.
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Who Gets to Name a Renaissance?
William Greaves’s extraordinary archive shows how history is made not from consensus, but from memory, disagreement, and the people who lived it.
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Primetime and the Cost of Becoming the Story
Robert Pattinson is excellent in a film more compelling in its questions about ambition than in the answers it ultimately gives.
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Coyote vs. Acme Has a Great Case and Nothing to Argue
A brilliant premise, some inspired jokes, and a courtroom comedy that never finds anything worth fighting for.
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The Writer in the Kitchen
Tony makes for an entertaining Bourdain biopic, while leaving its sweetest irony unexplored.
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Minotaur: The Coldest Film at Cannes
Andrey Zvyagintsev's Grand Prix winner is a masterclass in precision, restraint and trust.
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