Justin Chang

Dune: Part Two picks up right where Dune: Part One left off. It's still the year 10191, and we're ba...

One of the interesting things about this year's Academy Awards race for best international feature i...

If you were watching the Super Bowl the other night, you might have seen the just-released trailer f...

I first saw The Taste of Things at 8:30 in the morning at a Cannes Film Festival press screening las...

I try not to be too dogmatic these days about telling people that there are certain movies they shou...

The Mexican writer-director Michel Franco is something of a feel-bad filmmaker. His style can be chi...

The Zone of Interest begins on a lovely afternoon somewhere in the Polish countryside. A husband and...

Film critics like to argue as a rule, but every colleague I've talked to in recent weeks agrees that...

Poor Things is a little Alice in Wonderland, a little Wizard of Oz, a little Marquis de Sade and a w...

Those of us who love the work of the anime master Hayao Miyazaki have happily learned not to take hi...

We're in the thick of year-end movie season, or, as I've come to think of it, biopic season, when so...

If you were in reach of a TV or a tabloid in the '90s, you probably remember the case of Mary Kay Le...

David Fincher has had murder on his mind for so long, in thrillers like Se7en, Zodiac and The Girl w...

Even as someone whose job is to complain about the state of contemporary filmmaking, I've never real...

Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon mostly unfolds in the 1920s, when some of the richest p...

One reason Sandra Hüller is one of the best actors working today, is that unlike many performers, sh...

The use of AI in Hollywood has been one of the most contentious issues in the writers and actors str...

You can always count on Agatha Christie for a surprise, and the big twist in A Haunting in Venice is...

If you, like me, know little about the gaudily theatrical style of professional wrestling known as l...

Michael Cera has been doing a lot of TV lately, but it's nice to see him back on the big screen for ...

The New York-based writer-director Ira Sachs has a gift for putting romance, gay and straight, under...

After a family trip to Disneyland last year, my daughter told me that her favorite ride was the Haun...

Like a lot of people, I chuckled at the "Barbenheimer" memes that have flooded the internet in recen...

For some time now, Tom Cruise has been on what feels like a one-man mission to save the movies. Back...

There's an early moment in Joy Ride when you'll know if you're on board with this exuberantly raunch...

Asteroid City is one of the most beautiful-looking movies Wes Anderson has ever made, and that's cer...

Past Lives opens with a shot of three people sitting at a bar in New York — a man and a woman, both ...

I haven't really been a fan of Disney's recent live-action remakes of its most beloved animated titl...

Like a lot of people, I'm a longtime iPhone user — in fact, I used an iPhone to record this very rev...

Over the past several months I've seen a few unusually heartfelt movies about male friendship — a su...