The 52nd Telluride Film Festival is now in the books. Margot Robbie, Ryan Coogler, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Rian Johnson, Janet Yang, Kathy Kennedy and Frank Marshall were among those […]
‘This Is Not a Drill’ Review: Climate Activism Doc Feels Stuck in a More Hopeful Past
Had This Is Not a Drill, the new documentary from Oren Jacoby (Sister Rose’s Passion), premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last fall, it would have played as an inspiring […]
Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Hamnet,’ Chloé Zhao’s Pic About the Shakespeares’ Love and Loss, Is Talk of Fest
Hamnet, the latest work of the wonderful Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao, who won best picture and director Oscars for 2020’s Nomadland, is an adaptation, written by Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, […]
Telluride Awards Analysis: For Yorgos Lanthimos’ Haunting ‘Bugonia,’ Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons Are Likely Headed Back to the Oscars
The team that brought you 2018’s The Favourite, 2023’s Poor Things and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness — filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and actress/producer Emma Stone — has struck again, this time with […]
‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Review: Colin Farrell’s Charm Can’t Save Edward Berger’s Hollow Redemption Tale
Ballad of a Small Player, the latest film by Conclave director Edward Berger, has two main things going for it. One is an arresting lead performance by Colin Farrell. He […]
‘The New Yorker at 100’ Review: Netflix Doc Is Entertaining and Star-Studded, but the Storied Magazine Deserved More Depth
With Marshall Curry‘s The New Yorker at 100, a magazine famous for its erudition and curation receives a polished, amusing and generally superficial Reader’s Digest summary of a documentary. Very […]
‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Jeremy Allen White Gives Raw, Internalized Performance as The Boss in Contemplative Bio-Drama
Just as A Complete Unknown escaped the dreary conventionality of cradle-to-grave music biopics by surveying the nascent period in the stardom of its unknowable subject, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me […]
‘Highway 99: A Double Album’ Review: Ethan Hawke Pays Tribute to Merle Haggard With a Rousing and Soulful Pilgrimage Through His Songs
Nine years after Merle Haggard’s death at 79, Ethan Hawke has organized a public wake, and it’s a humdinger. A biography by way of California road trip and recording-studio extravaganza, […]
Telluride: Richard Linklater on ‘Nouvelle Vague,’ Selling It to Netflix and France’s Oscar Choice
With the 52nd Telluride Film Festival set to kick off in the Rockies on Friday, The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Richard Linklater, the veteran filmmaker who is the only […]