K. Austin Collins
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Kindred Spirit
Guyanese-British actor LETITIA WRIGHT, an Emmy nominee for Black Mirror and a standout in Marvel movies, is diving into her country’s complicated, and often buried, racial history with the series Small Axe from director Steve McQueen → Read More
Rich and Unsettling, La Llorona Demands Your Attention
Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamente’s taut, effective new horror film finds new ways to spin an old legend. → Read More
Review: Sputnik, Russia’s Hit New Sci-Fi Thriller, is Familiarly Unfamiliar
Director Egor Abramenko’s feature debut has its charms, though you’ll probably see them coming. → Read More
Review: A New Take on The Secret Garden Has a Few Tantalizing Sparks of Life
The new adaptation of the Frances Hogdon Burnett classic isn’t a knock-out, but it’s satisfying. → Read More
Seth Rogen’s An American Pickle Should’ve Been More Sour
Rogen does double duty in this slight but amusing comedy, playing both a Jewish Rip Van Winkle type and his decidedly 21st century descendent. → Read More
Review: She Dies Tomorrow Is An Unsettling Tour of One Woman's Anxieties
In Amy Seimetz's second feature, starring Kate Lyn Sheil, a deathly premonition spreads like a plague. → Read More
If Only Marie Curie Movie Radioactive Had Been More Experimental
Rosamund Pike stars as the Nobel-winner in Marjane Satrapi’s unfortunately by-the-numbers biopic. → Read More
Review: The Painted Bird Searches for Meaning in Unrelenting Tragedy
Václav Marhoul’s epic adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s brutal 1965 novel is skillfully provocative, but not entirely worth it. → Read More
Relic Exemplifies the Trouble With “Elevated” Horror
Emily Mortimer stars in a buzzy debut—a film that falls into the same trap as several recent movies trying to serve depth as well as scares. → Read More
How I Learned to Love—Or at Least Appreciate—Braveheart
The Mel Gibson epic has turned 25. Does it hold up? → Read More
Netflix’s The Lovebirds Is a Bad Romance
Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani can’t charm their way out of a soggy action comedy . → Read More
Remembering Fred Willard, Who Stood Out by Being a Team Player
A tribute to the ubiquitous funnyman, a comedy great as generous as he was singular. → Read More
Watching Upstream Color at the End of the World
In the fifth installment of our COVID era streaming series, our critic revisits a 2013 sci-fi mystery about the strange connections between people. → Read More
Netflix Original Movies: 5 Worthy Hidden Gems
The streamer has an overwhelming amount of content—but these films, from Orson Welles’s unfinished masterpiece to a turbulent Senegalese love story, deserve another look. → Read More
The Sly Class Politics of HBO’s Bad Education
Cory Finley’s take on an infamous Long Island school embezzlement scandal, which stars Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney, has more on its mind than at first appears. → Read More
There Are No Surprises in The True History of the Kelly Gang
Justin Kurzel’s take on the Ned Kelly myth, starring 1917’s George McKay, has attitude but not much else. → Read More
We've Lost an Amazing Pair of Eyes, Cinematographer Allen Daviau
He made The Color Purple, E.T., and more with Steven Spielberg → Read More
Bloodbath and Beyond: the Wondrous Western Mashup Bacurau
In a wild political allegory from directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, a Brazilian village disappears from the map. → Read More
There’s No Other War Movie as Horrifying, or Vital, as Come and See
Nazi atrocities take center stage in Elem Klimov’s unflinching, recently restored masterpiece. → Read More
Review: Pixar Doesn’t Go Upward With Onward
The pioneering studio’s clever and sentimental new adventure boasts garbage-eating unicorns and an endearing Chris Pratt—but not enough of that Pixar magic. → Read More