Sicario is a well-made and unremittingly intense drama about fighting drug cartels on the U.S.-Mexico border. Somewhere in the middle, I…
Ridley Scott’s The Martian is a film about rolling up one’s sleeves and getting to work; it’s set in a world where phrases like “Work the…
Bridge of Spies is the new Steven Spielberg film, co-written by the Coen Brothers with an assist from history. It’s a very…
Sleeping with Other People, written and directed by Leslye Headland, is an odd misfire of a film. It’s a…
In a world where the franchise is King, referring to a filmmaker as a “genre director” means their career is…
Going Into The City is Robert Christgau’s memoir of a post-World War II New York childhood…
We think we know Steve Jobs already. That fact represents the challenge faced by writer Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle in turning…
Truth takes place in the weeks before the 2004 election, when a 60 Minutes report alleged that President George W. Bush had gone AWOL from the…
