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Notes on this Fall's picks Very interesting biopic of a lesser-known character, more famous for his 'deadly toy' than his biography, which is instead full of strange facts. Who would say that the father of the atomic bomb was a communist...

Walking into Largo Garibaldi, where Enzo Ferrari lived, piazza Grande and piazza Roma in the summer of 2022 had been pure de ja vu for me. I had found myself in the Modena of my childhood, the old-fashioned traffic lights, buses, billboa...

Martin Scorsese’s western true-crime thriller is about the US’s Osage murders of the early 1920s … Scorsese crafts an epic of creeping, existential horror about the birth of the American century, a macabre tale of quasi-genocidal serial ...

Review Legendary moustachioed Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot, played by Branagh, is back for the third time. This time Branagh adapts Christie’s late novel Hallowe’en Party, moving the setting to a crepuscular Venice. The timeline follows...

a documentary essay on faking history through cinema: the grisly founding myth of fascism  Watching a work by British film critic and historian Mark Cousins is actually like going to a university class: his movies are called ‘docume...

meta-whodunit more parody than homage: a mousetrap for moviegoers? In 1953 London, Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap celebrates its 100th performance, and the sleazy American director Leo Köpernick attempts to convince ...

or crime of a movie? Love it or leave it! LEAVE IT (suggested choice): David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’ is a Senseless Collection of Horrifying Garbage - The director’s latest abomination is causing audiences to walk out in drov...

all the rock music you have ever listened to comes from him  2h 39m, Biography , Drama , Music, Directed by Baz Luhrmann, in theaters: Jun 24, 2022 The film explores the life and music of Elvi...

Conventional biopic for an unconventional black swing singer The legendary Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, spent much of her career being adored by fans across the globe, all while the Federal Department o...

Branagh’s Amarcord amid The Troubles Leaving his ‘Poirot with a soul’ behind (see review below), this time K. Branagh walks down his own memory lane, departing sunny Egypt to get back ‘home’ in rainy 1969 Belfast, when The Troubles reall...