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Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 concludes the story begun in Mesrine: Killer Instinct. Although the two pieces can be seen as halves of a whole, it's not hard to understand why the project was bisected. Shootouts, prison escapes, and random acts of v...

I define a "boo!" moment as an instant in a movie when there is a loud sound, usually accompanied by a musical stinger and occasionally in concert with the fast pass of an unidentifiable object across a portion of the camera's field of view. The i...

Polls of the most “important” films made during the silent era consistently rank Fritz Lang’s Metropolis at or near the top (alongside Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and Murnau’s Nosferatu). There’s a reason for this: seemingly ...

After the misstep of Mistress America, The Meyerowitz Stories (full name: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)) represents a “return to form” for writer/director Noah Baumbach. Less pretentious and self-indulgent than some of his mumb...

The two best words to describe the 2006 motion picture Miami Vice are "stylish" and "intense." One of those descriptors without the other could lead one to suspect a pretentious bore or a pointless exercise in action but, by pairing them, writer/d...

The sole reason for Michael to exist—and the only legitimate way in which the movie can be enjoyed—is as a cocktail of nostalgia and musical appreciation. This truncated hagiography bends its knee to the myth of Jackson before tabloid headline...

When it comes to motion pictures, there are essentially two kinds of thrillers: visceral thrillers, which rely on action to generate tension and excitement, and intellectual thrillers, which burn more slowly but are often more satisfying in the end...

Celebrated South Korean writer/director Bong Joon Ho has a resume any self-respecting filmmaker would envy, with titles like Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer, Okja, and the Oscar-winning Parasite shining the brightest. Sadly, Bong’s latest, an ad...

The latest would-be art-house sensation from French auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet bears the title Micmacs, and has nothing to do with any entrée available at a certain high-profile fast food restaurant. It is, however, an unusual concoction that woul...

Spoilers Ahead!December 1944 in the Ardennes. The Battle of the Bulge is beginning. The snow is falling gently, coating everything in white. It’s here that the members of a small American Intelligence squad find themselves holed up in an aban...