Movies & TV

With an almost mathematical precision to its pulpiness, The Prosecutor, the latest action-thriller from Hong Kong superstar Donnie Yen, doles out a brutal fight scene every 25 to 30 minutes. Across two brisk hours, violence shifts proportionately between bouts of athletic knuckling, street brawls, shoot-outs, car chases, foot chases, impalings, and pummelings—all spaced out evenly, each […]

Indie documentary Dig! didn’t need to be improved upon, but its director Ondi Timoner has done just that.

Universal Horror remake Wolf Man drops most werewolf lore for a self-contained story about bad dads.

The Brutalist reminds us that where there’s hype, there’s sometimes fire.

We asked our regular film critic Dom Sinacola to revisit his favorite films of 2024. Some he reviewed for us. Others are surprises! Some won’t actually open in Portland til 2025.

Everyone’s been talking about Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point like its the first watchable Xmas movie in decades. Our regular critic Dom Sinacola thinks its even better than that; he included it on his top ten list of films from this year.

We asked our regular film critic Dom Sinacola to revisit his favorite films of 2024. We honestly had no idea he liked Furiosa this much.

Director James Mangold has made a Bob Dylan biopic that unfolds like an Oscar-bait bingo card, with Timothée Chalamet performing a functionally-solid impression of the icon as a rising teen star. Ultimately, “A Complete Unknown” provides no more thought on Dylan than a Wikipedia article.

Luca Guadagnino is a great editor of other people’s love stories. With this past spring’s Challengers, he took a fairly basic screenplay about tennis bros and queered it up to 11. In Bones and All (2022) he edited down an often-bratty young adult novel into a luminously gory homage to William Eggleston’s photographs of American landscapes. In Call […]

Gladiator II Is Just Gladiator With Jacked-up Howler Monkeys

Much has been made of Brit cinema heartthrob Hugh Grant’s heel turn in A24’s suspenseful horror film Heretic. It’s as if someone actually started listening to the actor, who has loudly proclaimed for decades that his bashful grimaces and hair shakes—found in iconic hits like Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Love, Actually—are just mannerisms […]