film reviews

The psychologist James Hillman writes about our attraction to biographies in his book The Soul’s Code...

“From the director of Sinister.” Sold. Scott Derrickson’s Sinister was not only one of my favorite films...

I walked to my neighborhood theater to see Tammy last night, excited to finally catch one of Melissa McCarthy’s movies.

The best television show this year was not True Detective or Mad Men or Girls or something on any cable channel...

I never liked science-fiction movies. I always thought they were propaganda for a neat, tidy, immaculately designed future...

One of the greatest artists in the history of the universe, Thelonious Monk, was once asked why his compositions were so complex, so dense...

Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys made me almost unbearably nostalgic, but not in the ways you might think.

Is Roman Polanski the greatest living filmmaker? On any given day, the argument could be made and effortlessly backed up. Polanski is as good...

Code Black, Ryan McGarry's documentary about doctors in training at Los Angeles County Hospital, and my film Approaching the Elephant...

Were it not for its boyish, entrepreneurial spirit, Silicon Valley might be too depressing to bear.

Set on the night of the passing of Miller's Comet, Coherence is about a dinner party for a group of eight friends...

One of the great paradoxes – and ironies – of cinema is that, despite the fact that the medium is built around...