In criticizing certain superhero movies, the director isn’t inveighing against fantasy but against a system of production that submerges directors’ authority.
Evans understood instinctively that one must be charming as well as a fine hunk of meat to succeed in the business, and his special power, it seems, was to flatter and seduce those more powerful than himself.
Under Tim Miller’s direction, the Arnold Schwarzenegger franchise finds a novel groove; and Noah Baumbach toys with his audience as one couple dissolves.
The film’s wide-ranging and far-reaching vision endows history with personal passions, deeply rooted in memory and in collective identity and experience.
Patient, composed, and cool to the point of froideur, Martin Scorsese’s latest film, speculating on the fate of Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), slows the passage of time.
Taika Waititi’s movie is conspicuously about the presence of good Nazis who, at critical moments, conducted their own forms of resistance from inside the institutions of power.
E. Elias Merhige directs a made-up making-of story, a wickedly fabricated behind-the-scenes yarn about the production, in 1921, of the real-life seminal vampire movie “Nosferatu.”