The main characters are the retired hitman John and his late wife Helen, the woman he retired for. Helen is past-tense to the ...

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Early on in Todd Haynes’ “Safe,” an unwatched television broadcasts a half-heard report on Elizabeth Bouvia, a woman ...

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Dania Bdeir’s “Warsha” is one of my favorite kinds of short films. In a tight fifteen minutes, it takes the viewer on a real ...

In Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” horror, cinema, and desire are intertwined. Though similar in ...

This is the question at the center of Julia Hart‘s latest musical drama, “Don’t Say Good Luck,” which stars Sunny Sandler (star of the delightful 2023 comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah“ ...

The critic turned filmmaker talks about working within other people's sensibilities and his own memories of SoHo.