In Review: 'Eternals,' 'Spencer,' 'Finch,' and 'The Beta Test'
In this week's reviews, the most beautiful MCU is also the worst, Pablo Larraín gives Princess Diana the 'Jackie' treatment, and robots and agents run on faulty programming.
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'The Nasty Girl': When history is written by the losers
Buried on Paramount +, this long-unavailable Miramax acquisition from 1990 speaks uncannily to the simmering evils of the present day.
In Review: 'Last Night in Soho,' 'Antlers,' 'The Souvenir Part II'
In this week's reviews, Edgar Wright enters an evocative, giallo-inspired portal to '60s London, horror gets elevated, and Joanna Hogg continues her semi-autobiographical journey.
A Conversation with John Hodgman about 'Dune,' Pt. 2
In which the author and humorist gets the 'Dune' of his dreams, but wonders if the era that made it "filmable" is also an era in which it's unnecessary.
A Conversation with John Hodgman about 'Dune,' Pt. 1
In the first of our two-part discussion on all things 'Dune,' Hodgman talks about his emotionally charged first encounter with the David Lynch film and a Peter Berg version that never happened.
In Review: 'Dune,' 'The French Dispatch,' 'Halloween Kills'
It's Two-mothée Chalamet week as the young star stars in a half-finished but rousing take on Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic and Wes Anderson's latest. Also: 'Halloween Kills' does not slay.