Licorice Pizza is about as Paul Thomas Anderson a flick as they come. Anderson somehow makes the sprawling San Fernando Valley feel manageable as kid actor and entrepreneur Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) makes his part of town a little smaller by fr...

Ragged Heart is a raw journey through the heart of a grieving musician who loses his gifted daughter after an unexpected phone call. Filmmaker Evan McNary has crafted a haunting narrative, which drifts through the secret lives of the artists of Athen...

The Novice is a genre-bending sports film, which puts women front and center in the world of rowing while also delivering a psychological thriller-style gut punch. Isabelle Fuhrman’s tortured Alex Dall is a captivating character study of the college ...

American cowboy movies come with much swagger, often violence, and usually plenty of guns. Jane Campion’s newest, The Power of the Dog, however, is a taught thriller with often disturbing imagery, but almost none of the above. Instead, it centers aro...

Pen15 entered the scene with a huge hook: 30-something actors would play middle schoolers, surrounded by actual middle schoolers. Yet creators and stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle quickly make you forget the hook as their performances are so engros...

Jonathan Larson (played by a pitch-perfect Andrew Garfield) and Stephen Sondheim (played by an empathetic Bradley Whitford) were two pillars of the musical theater world. The main difference: Larson was robbed of his chance to be as prolific as Sondh...

‘C’mon C’mon,’ is one of those rare dramedies audiences don’t receive often enough. It’s a movie about life, love and figuring things out along the way. It’s also a perfect piece for distribution from A24 (who brings you such fare as Euphoria and The...

The premise of the show is simple: Four girls are assigned to room together at the fictional liberal arts Essex College in Vermont — and they could not be more different. Yet, when they learn to listen to each other they find more common ground than ...

AFI Fest (back in person) wrapped up last Sunday with Halle Berry’s directorial debut Bruised. The movie tackles a disgraced MMA fighter returning to the ring and Berry was quoted as saying the flick is the biggest challenge of her career. The fest a...