Eddington
As tension rises over mask mandates in 2020, a small-town New Mexico sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) challenges the mayor (Pedro Pascal). So much is promising right from the start, with Ari…
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Hind Rajab was a six-year-old Palestinian girl who in January, 2024 was trying to escape the violence in Gaza together with her family. After the shelling of the family’s vehicle,…
Joker: Folie à Deux
As Arthur Fleck’s (Joaquin Phoenix) murder trial in Gotham City is about to begin, he meets an intriguing female patient (Lady Gaga) in Arkham and strikes up a connection. An…
Napoleon
A dependably robust epic from a filmmaker who has shown a great interest in brutal, historical dramas many times before. This one takes us on a sweeping journey through Napoleon’s…
Joker: Birth of a Clown Prince
Joaquin Phoenix. Photo: Warner As it is about to premiere, Joker has become a controversial film. For the Twitter crowd, director Todd Phillips’s explanation why he decided to make the…
Gladiator: Echoing in Eternity
Russell Crowe. Photo: Universal Gladiator is one of those films that opened as early as May, without all that much fanfare, and then kept building until the Oscars many months…
Walk the Line: How Cash Got His Act Together
Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. Photo: 20th Century Fox It’s impossible to see this movie and not think of last year’s Ray. Both films tell the story of a supremely…
Signs
Pennsylvania farmer Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) discovers huge circles in his corn field; similar events are taking place all over the world and mankind soon learns that aliens are on…
The Village
The people of a small, isolated Pennsylvania village have a special agreement with creatures that inhabit the surrounding woods, but an accident brings about changes... M. Night Shyamalan's first major…