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1 week ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mia Lee Vicino |Gemma Gracewood |Howards End |Yi Yi
Just as Nora Ephron made films for New York in September, Celine Song makes them for New York in June. The Materialists writer-director and I first spoke almost exactly two years ago, for the release of her stunning debut, Past Lives.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Jourdain Searles |Mia Lee Vicino |Annie Lyons |Unknown Pleasures
Since his feature debut Pickpocket in 1997, director Jia Zhangke has been steadily making films for more than 25 years, telling deeply human stories about love, loss and the constant, indiscriminate march of time. 2000’s Platform was Zhangke’s first foray into tracking the passage of time, depicting the societal changes within a small city in China from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Brandon Streussnig |Marya E. Gates |Mia Lee Vicino |Brute Force
Smothering silence. A close-up of a man’s face, sweat pouring down its craggy exterior. He reaches out, another man hands him a tool. Zoom out. We see a safe. The tool is being used to crack it open. Inside the safe hides a better life. Or at least that’s what these men have told themselves. They only need to push a little harder and retrieve it.
If you’ve seen a heist picture, you know these beats well.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino
The Josh Hartnett renaissance is in full swing, and we’re all the better for it. The past few years have seen a major surge for the star who broke out at the turn of the century across horror hits (Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Faculty), emotionally packed teen dramas (The Virgin Suicides, O) and major blockbusters (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down).
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Öykü Sofuoğlu |Mia Lee Vicino |Dominic Corry |La Land
“I wanted to make people cry. […] And I succeeded! I was pleased.” This is how Jacques Demy describes his Palme d’Or-winning movie musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in a making-of documentary interview he gave to the BBC in 1972.
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2 months ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mia Lee Vicino |Isaac Feldberg |Katie Rife
“You’ve made a career out of bodies,” a character observes of Karsh (Vincent Cassel), the protagonist of David Cronenberg’s deeply personal genre-bender, The Shrouds. In addition to their chosen jobs (Karsh was a producer of industrial videos before turning his focus to cemetery technology), he and his creator share many similarities.
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2 months ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mia Lee Vicino |Jack Moulton |Rafa Sales Ross |Charlie Says
Like Frankenstein’s Mary Shelley before her, Mary Harron has created a monster: American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman. Well, technically Bret Easton Ellis did, with his controversial 1991 source novel. But it was Harron who catapulted Bateman into the cultural consciousness via her 2000 film adaptation.
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2 months ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino |Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy can do it all. Born in Manhattan to an award-winning playwright father and a sculptor-writer mother, for many years he pursued a career as a musician before abandoning tunes when he discovered his knack for screenwriting. Gilroy saw his work on screen for the first time at the age of 36 with 1992’s ice-skating rom-com The Cutting Edge, following it up with a stunning run of success from aching dramas (Dolores Claiborne) to operatic thrillers (The Devil’s Advocate).
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
letterboxd.com | Matt Goldberg |Mia Lee Vicino |Jack Moulton |Jeffrey Reddick
We’ve all felt it at one point or another: the creeping sensation of nervous dread that everything in a mundane situation could go wrong and spell our doom. Maybe we feel it when boarding an airplane, or perhaps it lingers in the pit of our stomachs as we step onto a roller coaster.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino |Garry White |Wes Anderson
“This week, our community lost a giant,” Morgan Freeman said at the 97th Academy Awards, speaking to the passing of his former co-star and “dear friend” Gene Hackman. “Like everyone who has ever shared a scene with him,” the actor continued, “I learned he was a generous performer, and a man whose gifts elevated everyone’s work.
