The Secret World of Arrietty (scripted by veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki and directed by first-timer Hiromasa Yonebayashi) once again...

There’s a brilliant moment in Bob Fosse’s adaptation of Cabaret that’s always stuck with me: our heroes are attending a picnic on a...

Caught a screening of Won’t You Be My Neighbor? at Angelika. I’ll be honest: despite its almost universally positive reception, I went...

On something of a whim (thanks to a sudden and aggressive marketing push by MoviePass), I headed over to Union Square to catch a...

As part of its last major series of midnight screenings, Sunshine Cinema played Stop Making Sense, the late Jonathan Demme’s Talking...

Caught a screening of The Flute and the Arrow at Metrograph. I’d never heard of it before, but it’s old and foreign, which always piques...

Popped over to FilmStruck to watch Gray’s Anatomy, a captivating monologue by famed oral storyteller Spalding Gray. As is often the case...

Someone recently recommended that I check out the Metrograph Theater, so today, I made my way over to Canal and Ludlow to catch a...

Caught a screening of a documentary called Ascent at Film Forum. Honestly, the description on the website didn’t quite convince me that...

Earlier this week, while browsing Film Forum’s website, I discovered a little movie called Manifesto, and it sounded so delightfully...

Logged in to Hulu to watch Batman & Bill, a brilliant documentary about the life and legacy of William Finger—the long-uncredited...

Heard that IFC Center was screening Mifune: The Last Samurai, a new documentary about one of my favorite Japanese actors, so of course I...

Bohemian Rhapsody has navigated a rough and bumpy road to the big screen. Following several false starts, the X-Men franchise’s Bryan...

Saw two films today: First Man: Caught this one in IMAX—the ideal format for the experience, not only for the spectacle, but for the more...

I could write a book about Deadpool 2. No, that is not hyperbole. This movie isn’t just a lightweight, wacky superhero comedy; it is a...

Hyperbole time: A Quiet Place is the most effective horror movie I’ve seen in a theater since 10 Cloverfield Lane (feel free to point out...

Did you know that the first “difficulty curve” in video game history was the result of a glitch? Even today, in the age of...

How bad has my addiction to Japanese cinema gotten, you ask? Tonight, I ventured all the way out to Yonkers to catch an 11:00 p.m....

On a whim, I ventured out to IFC Center for a late night screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. I’d never felt a strong desire to see...

Caught a screening of Ghost in the Shell. This adaptation of Mamoru Oshii’s influential anime—itself an adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s...