October 5, 2026 Verity (2026) A struggling writer moves into a stranger’s house to finish another woman’s novels. The premise promises bite. For its first half, though, Verity played like… READ MORE
October 3, 2026 The Great Arch (2025) Johan Otto von Spreckelsen described his winning design for La Défense as an open cube, a window onto the world. The film’s French title, L’Inconnu… READ MORE
October 1, 2026 Heart of the Beast (2026) A man has a heart attack at the controls of a seaplane, and the plane goes into the water. That’s where David Ayer’s Heart of… READ MORE
September 22, 2026 Coyote vs. Acme (2026) The first ACME crate hits the courtroom floor with a thud that sounds exactly like every anvil that ever landed on that coyote’s head, and… READ MORE
September 20, 2026 Resident Evil (2026) A courier with a parcel is a modest sort of hero, and I warmed to him more than I expected. In Resident Evil, Bryan (Austin… READ MORE
September 19, 2026 Maigret and the Dead Lover (2026) A locked drawer holding fifty years of letters tells you more about a life than most of us manage to say about our own in… READ MORE
September 16, 2026 The Weight (2026) There’s a shot about halfway through The Weight where the camera refuses to cut. It just circles a man crouched under a hundred pounds of… READ MORE
September 14, 2026 & Sons (2025) Bill Nighy plays reclusive novelists in his sleep by now, so the pleasure of watching him do it again in & Sons comes from the… READ MORE
September 12, 2026 De Gaulle: Résistance (Tilting Iron) (2026) Authority, in Antonin Baudry’s De Gaulle: Résistance (Tilting Iron), is not inherited or granted. It is willed into being, one broadcast at a time, by… READ MORE
September 11, 2026 By Any Means (2026) A Black FBI agent shakes hands with a mafia hitman in a Mississippi motel room, and neither man trusts the other enough to sit with… READ MORE
