***½/****starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scottwritten by Robert Kaplow, inspired by the writings of Lorenz Hart and Elizabeth Weilanddirected by Richard Linklater by An...

***½/****starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scottwritten by Robert Kaplow, inspired by the writings of Lorenz Hart and Elizabeth Weilanddirected by Richard Linklater by An...

**/****starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Ruttenwritten and directed by Benny Safdie by Angelo Muredda The early narrative on Dwayne Johnson’s starring role as veteran mixed-martial...

Ann Lee***/****starring Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbottwritten by Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbetdirected by Mona Fastvold by Angelo Muredda Spea...

***/****starring Isaach De Bankolé, Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Tom Blythscreenplay by Claire Denis, Suzanne Lindon, and Andrew Litvack, based on Black Battles with Dogs by Bernard-Marie Koltèsdir...

Chloé Zhao’s MY GIRL. It’s a handsome movie and everyone is working very hard (Emily Watson, good to see you), but this felt counterfeit to me and left me completely cold — no sense of what draws Agne...

O Agente Secreto***½/****starring Wagner Moura, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândidowritten and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho By Angelo Muredda “He had a good voice,” an archivist muses to her colleague about a historical subject whose life under autocratic rule she’s been piecing together from audio cassette recordings and newspaper clippings late in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent. A chronicler of the gentrified streets, gated communities, and forgotten movie theatres of his northern hometown of Recife (which he has commemorated in films past, from his 2011 debut feature Neighbouring Sounds–partially shot in his own family home–to his death-tinged 2023 documentary…

***½/**** starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt written and directed by David Cronenberg by Angelo Muredda David Cronenberg is no stranger to illness and death, from the syn...

***½/****starring Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmedscreenplay by Wes Andersondirected by Wes Anderson By Angelo Muredda Midway through Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Zs...

***½/****starring Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmedscreenplay by Wes Andersondirected by Wes Anderson By Angelo Muredda Midway through Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Zs...

Still from Life After depicting Not Yet Dead protest (courtest: Multitude Films) “Disabled people aren’t threatened by their bodies,” Reid Davenport says early in his evocative new documentary Life Af...

***½/****starring Zhao Tao, Li Zhubingwritten and directed by Jia Zhangke by Angelo Muredda While some spent their COVID lockdowns making sourdough starters and boning up on the medicinal properties o...

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***½/****directed by Reid Davenport by Angelo Muredda “I’ve done what I can, and the quality of my life is over,” 26-year-old disabled woman and assisted dying cause célèbre Elizabeth Bouvia says in a...

***½/****directed by Reid Davenport by Angelo Muredda “I’ve done what I can, and the quality of my life is over,” 26-year-old disabled woman and assisted dying cause célèbre Elizabeth Bouvia says in a...

On the podcast, Alex and Angelo discuss David Cronenberg's excellent The Shroud and the misleading myths about his films.