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Documentary duo: You Can See Everything (2026) and Musk (2026)
The directorial collaboration between documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven) and television’s reigning provocateur, Nathan Fielder, is ostensibly a movie about Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former tech mogul who built Theranos into a multibillion-dollar company. And You Can See Everything is about Holmes—at least in part—albeit without rehashing the fraud that made her…
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Digger (2026)
A lot of film critics are experiencing near-orgasmic schadenfreude over the high-profile commercial tanking of Digger. There’s no question that director Alejandro González Iñárritu is a polarizing filmmaker, despite—or perhaps largely because of—his two Academy Awards for Best Director (Birdman and The Revenant). To be sure, there is plenty to critique: Iñárritu’s movies can be…
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Primetime (2026)
In Primetime, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen bristles when asked whether a bracelet on his wrist is an “acting totem.” No, snaps the man whose television series offered recurring stings of would-be child sex predators. He is never acting, Hansen insists; he is cleansing the world of “the most ancient evil.” And yet…
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The Weight (2026)
Ethan Hawke somehow seems a natural fit for any time period. In The Weight, set in 1933, the actor’s face—lean and angular, his eyes conveying perpetual anguish—could belong to someone in one of Dorothea Lange’s celebrated photographs from the Great Depression. It’s a somber face, well suited to a role that is something of a…
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The 10 best films featuring cannibalism
While Hannibal Lecter is no doubt cinema’s most infamous cannibal, we don’t see him actually chow down in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Cannibalism is one of the most taboo subjects for movies to explore, but there have been a few gutsy enough to venture into the people-eating side of things. Caveat: these are…
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The 10 best films about aging
Everyone gets old, at least the most fortunate of us do, but Hollywood doesn’t have a robust track record for movies about aging. That’s not particularly surprising for a medium that likes things young and beautiful, but it is disappointing. The forays into aging tend to be cutesy or depressing. There’s not much middle ground.…
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The 10 best performances by film directors (not typically known for acting)
Scores of great actors have transitioned to equally successful careers directing—Clint Eastwood, John Cassavetes, Orson Welles, Ron Howard, Rob Reiner, Greta Gerwig, and Jordan Peele, to name just a few—but the jump from behind the camera to in front of it is much less common. When it does happen, the result can be revelatory. Hence,…
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The 10 best car chases on film
There’s no thrill in cinema quite as purely visceral as a great car chase. Tires screeching, crunching metal, imminent disaster—you know the drill. Comedies had been staging chases for laughs since the days of the Keystone Kops, but the movies’ modern-day car chase didn’t really come about until 1968, when director Peter Yates strapped a…
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