Alien: Covenant
This is the third best Alien movie after the first two, but don’t be surprised if repeat viewings kick it up a notch.
This is the third best Alien movie after the first two, but don’t be surprised if repeat viewings kick it up a notch.
A remarkable tale of immigrant success, wrapped around a crime story.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Day 2 of Cannes 2017 includes the latest from Todd Haynes.
A report on the opening day press conference for Cannes 2017 and the premieres of "Ismael's Ghosts" and "Loveless."
An article about the reissue of "Two Weeks in the Midday Sun."
Pure metal.
PBS' American Masters has a special four-hours for foodies, with docs on James Beard, Jacques Pepin, Alice Waters and Julia Child.
A report on the L.A. Riots and the many documentaries looking back on it 25 years later.
Claire Denis's "Bright Sunshine In" opened Directors' Fortnight, a parallel festival, which also presented Werner Herzog with an honorary award.
The screenings of "De-Lovely," "Pleasantville," "Varieté" and "July and Half of August" at Ebertfest 2017.
Alissa Wilkinson is a critic, journalist, and professor living in Brooklyn. Her work appears at Vulture, Rolling Stone, Pacific Standard, Books & Culture, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She is co-author, with Rob Joustra, of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World (Eerdmans, 2016) and is at work on Orphaned Believers: Reframing Religion in the Age of Faith-Based Film (The Critical Press, 2017). Alissa is Christianity Today's critic at large and an assistant professor of English and humanities at The King's College in downtown Manhattan. She tweets @alissamarie.
An interview with director Robert Greene about "Kate Plays Christine," nonfiction storytelling, a documentarian's honesty and much more.
On images of wanderers of the American west in TV shows like "True Detective," "Preacher" and "Outcast."
An interview with director Anne Fontaine about her new film "The Innocents."
Alissa Wilkinson picks one of her favorite reviews by Roger Ebert.
Interviews with actors Joel Edgerton and Kirsten Dunst about Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special.
A report from the 2016 True/False documentary film festival in Columbia, Missouri.
An interview with director Jeff Nichols and star Michael Shannon of "Midnight Special" from Berlin.