23 Great Movies the Oscars Couldn’t Help but Recognize
These films were underappreciated by the Academy, receiving just one nomination for their screenplays. They’re also undeniable crowd-pleasers.
Film
America Needs a Rom-Com Bailout
“It’s this or porn, people.”
The New Texas Chainsaw Massacre Is All Blood, No Bite
The Netflix slasher joins an unfortunate trend in horror: “legacy sequels” that fail to capture what made the classics so special.
Why Hollywood Can’t Quit Guns
How the industry moved on from the deadly Rust shooting
The Never-Ending Quest to Make a Great Video-Game Movie
Uncharted, starring Tom Holland, is a disappointingly derivative adaptation of a franchise that was already intentionally derivative.
The Oscar-Nominated Film That Offers a Master Class in Journalism
The stars of the documentary Writing With Fire are a group of newspaper reporters working to create a revolution in Indian media.
What Nancy Meyers Understands About Love After Age 50
Something’s Gotta Give and It’s Complicated show how romances—and rom-coms—don’t always unfold in the same way.
Marry Me and the Revenge of the Old-Fashioned Rom-Com
Thank goodness for the return of syrupy nonsense.
Technology Is Terrifying in Steven Soderbergh’s Kimi
Zoë Kravitz offers a convincingly disturbed performance in this nervy surveillance film.
Moonfall Is the Hilarious Nadir of Disaster Movies
Imagine a really terrible version of Independence Day, featuring a lunar catastrophe.