“Eagles of the Republic” is a Cairo-set political thriller one can slot into the following category: movies about life under autocracy that feel different to watch — at least to Americans...
In “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s ingenious and enchanting docudrama about the making of “Breathless,” the 29-year-old Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) never takes off his sunglasses. He wears them on the set...
Patricia Clarkson is an actor who always hits the true note, but it’s been quite a while since she nabbed a movie role as full-scale and invigorating as the one she...
It’s been a long time coming. Like Jack Nicholson’s Col. Nathan R. Jessup in “A Few Good Men,” finally admitting that he ordered the Code Red (“You’re goddamn right I did!”),...
David Mamet has been a celebrated playwright for half a century, and there are so many themes and obsessions and modes and rhythms and tics running through his work that it’s...
“Rust,” as the whole world knows, is a movie that was the seat of a horrific on-set tragedy. During the shooting of a scene at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa...
The title of “Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie” makes it sound like another of the duo’s agreeably shambolic made-up-on-the-spot-but-who-could-tell-if-it-wasn’t? buddy-comedy rambles. And given their age (Tommy Chong is about to turn...
