Palm Royale is Pretty and Shallow, Which At Least Matches its Characters
Kristen Wiig leads an amazing cast on Apple TV+’s Palm Royale, which also includes Oscar winners Allison Janney and Laura Dern.
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When Paul Simon Bombed at the Movies
The musician’s new documentary In Restless Dreams briefly mentions his failed 1980 film One-Trick Pony. But that muted, uneven drama deserves a second look for what it says about the man who made it.
SXSW 2024: Omni Loop, Desert Road, Things Will Be Different
On three trippy sci-fi movies from SXSW, including a standout with Ayo Edebiri.
SXSW 2024: Clemente, Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, This is a Movie About the Black Keys
On three SXSW bio-docs on Roberto Clemente, Cheech & Chong, and The Black Keys.
SXSW 2024: Whatever It Takes, Resynator, The Hobby
Three more docs from SXSW, including an insane true crime story.
SXSW 2024: Dandelion, A Nice Indian Boy, I Don’t Understand You, I Love You Forever
On four SXSW premieres, including one of the standouts of the fest.
Trigger Warning: Jessica Hausner Is Going to Keep Asking Uncomfortable Questions
The controversial Club Zero filmmaker talks about being provocative—and why she doesn’t believe in right and wrong.
SXSW 2024: Oddity, Azrael, Kryptic
On three SXSW genre films, including the standout, Oddity.
Queen of Good Corporate Governance, Nell Minow Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Work on Behalf of Shareholders
An article about Nell Minow receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on behalf of shareholders.
Girls5eva Switches Streaming Labels with Funny, Brief Third Season
A review of the third season of Girls5eva, now on Netflix.
With Analyze This, Robert De Niro Finally Decided to Become the King of Comedy
Before Meet the Parents established the Raging Bull Oscar-winner as a comedy superstar, this 1999 hit first signaled De Niro’s pivot from serious to funny, for better or worse.
SXSW 2024: Dickweed, Secret Mall Apartment, She Looks Like Me
Brief thoughts on three docs from SXSW with stories too crazy to be fiction.
War Was Not Over at the 2024 Oscars
The glamour inside, the protests outside, and everything in between.
Oscars 2024: The View from the Room
The Oscar sandwich: a slab of gloriousness between two slices of bad
SXSW 2024: Roleplay, Gasoline Rainbow, Grand Theft Hamlet
On three very different docs from SXSW that are still somehow connected by a theme of community and the need for expression.
A Great Movie Year Deserved a Better Oscars
Despite some flashes of inspiration, protest and pizzazz, the 96th Academy Awards were too routine to capture the spirit of 2023’s brilliant films and the uncertain world outside the multiplex.
SXSW Film Festival 2024: Babes, My Dead Friend Zoe, Y2K
On three world premieres from SXSW this year, including new films by Pamela Adlon and Kyle Mooney.
True/False 2024: Coming Home Again
A recap of one of the essential documentary film festivals of the year.
True/False 2024: Ibelin, Alien Island, Yintah
On three docs from this year’s True/False.
