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Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton

A rap response to the box-office hit biopic about N.W.A.’s cultural ascent.

August 21, 2015

Stephen Winter (Jason and Shirley) Talks Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s Ten Thousand Saints

On the pleasures and pitfalls of contemporary indie nostalgia in this 1980s set coming-of-age drama.

August 20, 2015

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm

A Dolan hater does a 180 on the French-Canadian wunderkind after seeing his audacious psychosexual thriller.

August 19, 2015

Michael Mohan (Save the Date) Talks Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America

The director and Greta Gerwig team up again for their most entertaining and impressive collaboration yet.

August 17, 2015

John Magary (The Mend) Talks Joel Edgerton’s The Gift

Among the virtues of this impressive debut feature is a resonant study of what it means to be an asshole.

August 14, 2015

Jim Strouse (People, Places, Things) Talks Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four

What do an indie director and his eight- and 11-year-old kids think of the latest (and famously troubled) Marvel movie?

August 12, 2015

Novelist and Screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis (The Canyons) Talks James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour

The literary icon offers his personal take on (and problems with) this new movie about the late David Foster Wallace.

August 11, 2015

Mark Neveldine (The Vatican Tapes) Talks Kim Seong-hun’s A Hard Day

In the car on the way to a Slipknot show, half of Neveldine/Taylor writes about this darkly humorous Korean thriller.

August 10, 2015

Joe Lynch (Everly) Talks Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

Cruise's consistently strong auteur-driven action franchise enters its fifth phase, and is more full of character and individuality than ever.

August 5, 2015

Jennifer Prediger (Apartment Troubles) Talks John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein’s Vacation

A trip back home to see family also becomes a journey to see the new version of an old favorite movie (and then also the original).

August 4, 2015

Kentucker Audley (Open Five) Talks Brent Hodge and Derik Murray’s I Am Chris Farley

Will this documentary on the late legendary comedian and actor live up to the expectations of a devoted longtime fan?

August 3, 2015

Richard Shepard (The Matador) Talks Stevan Riley’s Listen to Me Marlon

In what is a great moment for documentary filmmaking, this idiosyncratic archival portrait of Brando reveals the acting legend as never before.

July 29, 2015