The colossal melancholy of Ceylan's 'About Dry Grasses'
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 10:41
Last update: about 13 months ago
Associated Press
Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes long films, by movie standards, but short ones by Russian literature standards. There may be no filmmaker more consciously working in a novelistic tradition. The Turkish...
'Godzilla x Kong' has scales and scale but not much else
Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 12:33
Last update: about 13 months ago
Associated Press
As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who like their movies with a giant evil ape swinging a vertebrae like a lasso while riding a kaiju controlled by a crystal,...
Food, glorious food (and other pleasures) in 'The Taste of Things'
Saturday, 4 May 2024, 09:45
Last update: about 2 years ago
Associated Press
" The Taste of Things " should come with a warning: Audiences may be tempted to abandon work as they know it and start a beautiful, calm new life in the French countryside devoted to the culinary...
'Bob Marley: One Love' doesn't stir
Saturday, 4 May 2024, 09:41
Last update: about 2 years ago
Associated Press
Bob Marley was born in 1945, the son of an 18-year-old mother and a much older white man who had nothing to do with his son. As a boy raised in poverty, he often slept on the cold ground. Five years...
'Dune: Part Two' sustains the dystopian dream of 'Part One'
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 07:37
Last update: about 2 years ago
Associated Press
Three firm thumps into the Arrakis sand is all you need to summon a sandworm in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two.” It’s almost as easy as hailing a cab or calling...