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Chinese writer-director Bi Gan believes that filmmaking can capture his wildest dreams. Resurrection is his attempt to convince you that it can capture yours too. It’s ambitious to make a movie about how making movies is like harvesting dreams, projecting viewers’ inner lives back at them, often to visceral, abstract, and sometimes tummy-hurting ends. This is […]

Guillermo del Toro sincerely concluded: I discovered I was a 14-year-old girl in Victorian times.

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Also very beautiful: William H. Macy.

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The most relatable moments in One Battle After Another, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th feature, are of Leonardo DiCaprio groaning. Wiping his eyes, ugh-ing dramatically, hungover literally but also spiritually—as “Bob Ferguson” (the name taken when he goes into hiding with his daughter), DiCaprio lugs his body around like an overstuffed suitcase. Granted, Bob is pretty […]

September A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: In the yawning aftermath of After Yang, writer/director Kogonada tries again with Colin Farrell, this time welcoming Margot Robbie to another potential wad of corn, giving it a horrific title, and going for the tearjerking jugular. I’m sorry, but it grows harder every year to cheer for the man who […]

A new documentary looks at the sometimes chasmlike gap between what Francis Ford Coppola wants and those desperately trying to give him that.

I want to see a man’s [redacted] maimed by a [redacted]. That is the catharsis I deserve.