In Review: 'The Flash,' 'Elemental,' 'The Blackening'
This week, the DCEU and Pixar head into a cruel summer and a low-budget horror-comedy makes certain that not all of its Black characters will be the first to die.
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A. Friend in Low Places: On Treat Williams in 'Smooth Talk'
In one of the late actor's signature roles, Treat Williams brings a sinister confidence to the predator of Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?"
In Review: 'Past Lives,' 'Flamin' Hot'
The lives and loves of past and present intermingle in Celine Song's beautiful directorial debut. Spices intermingle with Cheetos in a fact-free true story.
The Second Acts of Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
With 'Enough Said' and 'You Hurt My Feelings,' the director and actress have charted a course through the anxieties of middle age.
In Review: 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,' 'The Boogeyman'
The animated Spider-Verse expands its web without losing any threads while a '70s Stephen King story gets a very 2023 adaptation.
#90 (tie): ‘Ugetsu’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Kenji Mizoguchi's 1953 masterpiece is a devastating and timeless ghost story about the cost of war.