The Movie of My Life

Dec 23, 2025 — Head into the holidays with roundtables to watch, articles to read, and podcasts to listen to.

Dec 1, 2025 — One of the most vital playwrights of our era was also an award-winning screenwriter.

Nov 13, 2025 — The director of Rat Trap and Monologue was an uncompromising artist who helped establish the Indian state of Kerala as a hub of bold political filmmaking.

Nov 4, 2025 — The director of La commune and The War Game shook up viewers with dramatizations historical conflicts and imminent futures.

Sep 30, 2025 — Made with a formal control unparalleled in modern American cinema, the films of this utterly distinctive auteur seek to contain and understand an uncontainable, unknowable world.

Sep 18, 2025 — No movie star was bigger in the 1970s, and he won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People. But Sundance may be his most impactful legacy.

Sep 3, 2025 — Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee), Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone (Bugonia), and Dwyane Johnson (The Smashing Machine) dazzle in Venice.

Aug 27, 2025 — The summer’s been terrific for new movie magazines and filmmaker biographies.

Jul 24, 2025 — Directed by Jack Bond, It Couldn’t Happen Here is a strange and compelling document of the synth-pop duo at the height of their success, as well as a darkly absurdist send-up of provincial England in the Thatcher era.

Jul 22, 2025 — New films by Olivier Assayas, Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Guillermo del Toro, Mona Fastvold, and Park Chan-wook will compete for the Golden Lion.