Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
Baltimore, MD, United States
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‘American Fiction’ wins big in Toronto, where the films were the stars
At this Toronto International Film Festival, strikes diminished the glitz. But the movies had no problem speaking for themselves. → Read More
‘A Haunting in Venice’: Branagh’s Poirot returns in moody mystery
Agatha Christie’s famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a murder in director Kenneth Branagh’s gloomy whodunit with a vivid supporting cast. → Read More
Trump’s mug shot is perfectly on brand
The former president’s booking photo serves as an official portrait. → Read More
‘The Eternal Memory’: The love that endures when awareness fades
Documentarian Maite Alberdi paints a tender and tough portrait of a couple grappling with the slow disintegration of Alzheimer’s disease. → Read More
‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’: The aliens like to watch
Lackluster film adaptation of young adult novel about voyeuristic extraterrestrials is as bizarre as the book, but somehow fails to achieve liftoff. → Read More
William Friedkin’s 75 steps: A Georgetown monument to cinematic horror
Appreciation: "The Exorcist" director William Friedkin → Read More
‘Passages’: Portrait of the artist as a very confused young man
Franz Rogowski shines as a petulantly hedonistic filmmaker in Ira Sachs’s sensitive story about a lovers' triangle and the pursuit of pleasure at all costs. → Read More
‘Kokomo City’: Four Black transgender sex workers tell it like it is
D. Smith’s documentary offers an audacious, endearing, illuminating, often amusingly ribald primer on the lives of Black trans sex workers. → Read More
‘Afire’: Christian Petzold drama smolders with a slow, steady burn
Inspired by the films of Éric Rohmer, the German drama is a quietly atmospheric study of artistic isolation and ego. → Read More
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ is a supersize masterpiece
In this three-hour biopic about the father of the atomic bomb, Cillian Murphy brings the tragic figure at its center to fascinatingly paradoxical life. → Read More
Tom Cruise is here to help
For more than four decades, the actor has attained near-mythic status by giving us what we want — including seven “Mission Impossible” movies. → Read More
‘Mission: Impossible’ delivers the pure escapism we need right now
‘Dead Reckoning, Part One’ lives up to star Tom Cruise’s notoriously high standards. And the best news? It isn’t even over yet. → Read More
‘No Hard Feelings’: She’s hot to trot, he’s not
Jennifer Lawrence plays a young woman hired by a couple to deflower their 19-year-old son in this blandly inoffensive sex comedy. → Read More
DC/DOX sets out to prove that film festivals still matter
Washington’s newest nonfiction film showcase aims to keep D.C. on the map for filmmakers, distributors and audiences → Read More
‘Chile ’76’: From portrait of privilege to taut political thriller
In Pinochet’s Chile, a woman transforms from a prosperous homemaker to a member of the resistance in this tightly coiled drama. → Read More
‘Lynch/Oz’: Munchkinland meets Mulholland Drive
Documentary makes the unsurprising argument that director David Lynch was inspired by "The Wizard of Oz." → Read More
‘Past Lives’: A lyrical love triangle unleashes a deluge of emotion
The directorial debut of Celine Song examines how our past conditions our present. → Read More
‘L’immensità’: Putting the broken pieces of one’s true self together
Italian filmmaker Emanuele Crialese’s memoir of gender transition in 1970s Rome gets the small details right, and the big picture, too. → Read More
‘Spider-Verse’ sequel: Overlong, overstuffed but wow, those visuals
The answer to the hit 2018 animated action film is a lot of movie in more ways than one. → Read More
‘Reality’: True story of NSA whistleblower is stranger than fiction
Sydney Sweeney plays Reality Winner, leaker of Russian election interference document, in this haunting film based on verbatim transcripts. → Read More