filmmaking

Which Movie’s Vision of 2022 Is More Nightmarish: ‘Soylent Green’ or ‘The Purge’?

These two films, both set this year, offer conflicting dystopian portraits of what ‘the future’ would look like. It’s time to gauge how accurate they were

This Gruesome Chinese War Epic Was (Nearly) 2021’s True Global Box Office Champ

Spider-Man might have knocked it off its pedestal just as the year drew to a close, but The Battle of Lake Changjin’s nearly billion dollar haul is actually much more impressive when you take a closer look

‘The Last Picture Show’ Is a Perfect Film About Imperfect Young Manhood

Peter Bogdanovich’s greatest movie has been the quintessential coming-of-age drama for half a century. But it’s also revealing about the late filmmaker’s passionate, complicated history with the women in his life

The 10 Most Intriguing Movies of 2022 (That Aren’t Based on Anything)

A comedy from Alejandro G. Iñárritu. A new horror film from Jordan Peele. A musical about the end of the world. Absolutely no sequels, remakes or adaptations