The Day of the Beast

Oct 9, 2018 — This adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel is a testament to the director’s professed influences.

Sep 12, 2018 — Viola Davis, Robert Redford, and Gael García Bernal star in a cluster of new heist movies.

May 15, 2018 — Critics come down hard on this portrait of a serial killer, but the film does have its champions.

May 15, 2018 — It’s the true story of a black detective who infiltrated the KKK—and Lee just might have a hit on his hands.

May 10, 2018 — The director of Ida returns with the story of an intense love affair.

Nov 20, 2017 — “Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday after nearly...

Oct 7, 2017 — “Claire Denis’s new film, Let the Sun Shine In, about a middle-aged woman’s romantic adventures, refracts personal experience in the form of a modernistic screwball comedy,” writes the New Yorker’s Richard Brody. “Juliette Binoche brings luminous intensity and wicked humor...

Oct 1, 2017 — Last week, Deadline’s Amanda N’Duka reported that Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) “has signed on to direct an upcoming biopic on Rosa Parks, which will center on the decade before her seminal moment on a Montgomery bus, when Parks,...

Sep 10, 2017 — “Fear rises like gas from a corpse in Armando Iannucci’s brilliant horror-satire The Death of Stalin,” begins the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw. “It’s a sulphurous black comedy about the backstairs Kremlin intrigue that followed the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953,...

Aug 31, 2017 — Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, premiering in Competition in Venice and screening as a Special Presentation in Toronto, is a “ravishing, eccentric auteur’s imagining, spilling artistry, empathy and sensuality from every open pore, [offering] more straight-up movie for...