Firebrand
By Wilda Williams July 1, 2024
An uneven period drama about the Tudor monarch’s final spouse that plays fast and loose with the historical record.
An uneven period drama about the Tudor monarch’s final spouse that plays fast and loose with the historical record.
Chen Kaige’s epic has returned in all its visual splendor and with 14 minutes restored.
Céline Sciamma turns to period drama with this elegant meditation on female desire that flips the script on the male gaze.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos turns Queen Anne’s court into a bawdy and baroque hothouse.
An entertaining and frustrating unofficial sequel to John Madden’s Mrs. Brown.
You will see it for Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis but stay for Lesley Manville.
The story of a sociopath learning his trade, beautifully crafted in old-school filmmaking.
It’s been eight years since Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s last feature, the Paris-set Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), and the idea for his latest film, The Assassin, had been gestating in his mind for a quarter of a century. But now, Hou’s unique and idiosyncratic take on the wuxia (martial arts films) has finally […]