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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Review

Dead Again: McQuarrie Cruises Into the Eye of AI For his seventh revolution around the sun as the indefatigable IMF agent Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise...

South of Heaven | Review

Heaven’s Grate: Keshales Settles for Watered Down Tropes in English Debut Nearly a decade ago, directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado promised to usher in...

City of Lies [Video Review]

L.A. Controversial: Furman Revisits the Wallace Murder in Mediocre Adaptation Whatever the likely combination of reasons for the three-year delay in its US theatrical release,...

The Quarry | Review

Steeple People: Teems Gets Spiritual in Rough-hewn Sophomore Film It’s been over a decade since director Scott Teems delivered his warmly received debut, That Evening...

Double Identity: Scott Teems’ ‘The Quarry’ Books Michael Shannon & Shea Whigham

Described as shades of Steinbeck and Faulkner, That Evening Sun helmer Scott Teems will see Michael Shannon and Shea Whigham reteam on his sophomore...

Top 50 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2019: #50. Martha Stephens’ To the Stars

To the Stars Moving from the lopapeysa fitted, John Cassavetes Award winning Land Ho! to an Oklahoma Land Rush, Martha Stephens (profiled in our Sundance...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #83. Martha Stephens – To the Stars

Martha Stephens' fourth feature film follows in the footsteps of Land Ho! (Sundance '14). With filming having taken place in May, starring Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman,...

Beirut | Review

Going Hamm in Beirut: Sharply Written, Compelling, Old school Hostage Drama Set in guess-where, Beirut is a snappy foreign diplomacy thriller so smart and steeped in detail...

Interview: Tony Gilroy & Jon Hamm – Brad Anderson’s Beirut | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Foreign diplomacy thriller Beirut might have been an unusual, counter-programming choice made by Sundance programmers, but it was the right project match and three person...

Sundance ’18: Wash Westmoreland, Debra Granik, Gus Van Sant & Zellner Bros. In Premieres Section

Despite not expecting the Premieres sections to be drop today, several of the narrative items below were on our radar and make for what...

Kong: Skull Island | Review

Kong’s Crib: Vogt-Roberts Strains Weak Characters Through Special Effects Pageant In the continuing tradition of flinging fledgling indie directors into studio tent pole franchise reboots,...

Cop Car | Review

Riding in Cars with Cops: Watts’ Thriller Offers Low Yield Excitement Jon Watts continues in the B-grade vein showcased in his 2014 Eli Roth starring...

Lila & Eve | Review

Day of the Mother: Stone’s Flighty Revenge Thriller Favors Laughs There’s a certain degree of entertainment to be gleaned from director Charles Stone III’s latest...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #60. Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups Director: Terrence Malick Writer: Terrence Malick Producers: Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Imogen Poots,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #13. Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups Director: Terrence Malick Producer(s): Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao, Daniel Newman U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Teresa Palmer,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #45. Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street Director: Martin Scorsese Writer(s): Terence Winter Producer(s): Scorsese, Riza Aziz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Joey McFarland U.S. Distributor: Paramount Pictures Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio,...

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