Happiest Season 

Harper (Mackenzie Davis) is spending Christmas together with her family and her girlfriend Abby (Kristen Stewart)… but on the journey home she tells Abby that she hasn’t come out to…

Muriel’s Wedding 

Muriel (Toni Collette), a bullied, ABBA-loving young woman in a small town, steal $12,000 to join her ”friends” on an island vacation. The director’s feature film debut was an international…

The Christmas Chronicles Part Two 

Kate (Darby Camp) comes to the North Pole and meets Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) again, but they realize that she was being used by a resentful former elf (Julian Dennison)…

The Last Emperor: The Chosen One

Richard Vuu. Photo: Columbia In the late 1980s, the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci was decidedly an international filmmaker, having made movies in France and the United States. That year he…

Mank: Writing Kane

Gary Oldman. Photo: Netflix David Fincher’s father Jack used to be a journalist. And then he became a screenwriter. His first stab at a story about the legendary Hollywood screenwriter…

Hillbilly Elegy

When future Vice President J.D. Vance’s memoir was published, it was hotly debated; many believed he generalized too much about the white working class, using his personal experiences of one…

Seven Samurai: Another Battle, Another Loss

Photo: Toho I saw this, the most famous of Akira Kurosawa’s movies, for the first time twenty years ago while studying journalism. More than three hours long, Seven Samurai is…

Rebecca: A Haunted House

Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson. Photo: United Artists As Alfred Hitchcock was making his first Hollywood movie, producer David O. Selznick tried his best to influence the British director. Selznick…

Enola Holmes 

When learning on her sixteenth birthday that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) is thrown into an adventure where she matches wits with her…