What’s happening with the SAG-WGA strike?
We may be seeing the death throes of cinema as we know it
Film
Friday
Monday
Napoleon heralds the return of the man’s movie
The recreations of the battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo, among others, look peerless
Thursday
The Flash and the downside of hype
This is not an isolated example of hype over achievement
Friday
Bama Rush fails as anti-Greek life propaganda
Lacking a decent angle, the director uses herself as filler
Sunday
Tom Hanks should stick to acting
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is as clumsy as its plodding title
Welcome to Ouarzawood, Moroccan desert outpost and set of many major movies
Celebrities flock here to film at the biggest movie studio in Africa
Michael Cimino’s gift to cinema
Heaven’s Gate is a 200-minute-plus mess of beautiful incoherences and stupefying contradictions
Thursday
Why are there no paintings in Star Wars?
They are not talked about, reflected upon or even alluded to
The importance of going to the movies
Something happens when you watch a movie alone together, laughing, crying and fidgeting in unison
Saturday
Why were 2000s movies so hypersexual?
Are we decent yet?
Tuesday
The Christian movie finally finds its niche
These films might not reach the Academy Awards, but they have an adoring fan base
Monday
Mary Blair, doyenne of Disneyland
To preserve an outsider artist such as her, you have to preserve the messy reality of life
Thursday
Knock at the Cabin is a better-than-average Shyamalan film
It packs an emotional wallop, though its religious motifs leave something to be desired
Tuesday
Turn Every Page is an engaging film about how news used to work
It chronicles the collaboration between our nation’s finest historian and his editor
Wednesday
Quentin Tarantino’s iconoclastic obsessions
How can an established artist, especially one this famous, pivot to criticism?
The death of the movie star
Hollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king
Friday
The unorthodox life and fall of Alec Baldwin
A wild career culminates in a horrible disaster
Friday
Confessions of a Sight and Sound voter
Reckoning with the subjectivity of ranking the greatest films ever
Tuesday
An ingloriously dumb adaptation
Almost Famous fails to make the jump from screen to stage
Cleopatra still dazzles sixty years later
The film is, above all, an Elizabeth Taylor-worshipping vehicle