Like Stanley Kubrick, writer and director George Miller has only made 13 feature films in his 46-year career, but Miller…
George Wu
George Wu holds a masters degree in cinema studies from NYU. He eats, drinks, and sleeps movies. Fortunately, he lives in New York City, the best place in the country for disorders of this type. He also works on the occasional screenplay when inspiration strikes, but his muses don't slap him around enough.
Writer-director Taika Waititi’s follow-up to his delirious Thor: Ragnarok, which is near the peak of all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies,…
Despite bringing on Academy Award-winning director Chloe Zhao, Eternals is surprisingly Marvel’s weakest film since The Incredible Hulk. Zhao’s three…
Aside from the time Warner Bros. poured a fortune into the first two Christopher Reeve “Superman” movies, superhero films languished…
“Ismael’s Ghosts” is director Arnaud Desplechin’s sixth outing with actor Mathieu Amalric. With such fantastic works as “My Sex Life……
In the contemporary footsteps of Michael Haneke, Gaspar Noe, and Lars von Trier and the more distant lineage of Luis…
Hirokazu Kore-eda has seemingly inherited the role of chronicling Japanese middle class domestic life from Yasujiro Ozu. That isn’t to…
The statement-making title, 20th Century Women, belies how small a film this is despite its ambitiousness. This is the story…
To call Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) an eccentric would be an understatement. Toni Erdmann opens with him answering the door…
Twenty years after “My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument” was released in France, its sequel/prequel “My…
Michael Moore makes me embarrassed to recommend his new movie “Where to Invade Next.” By now, Moore’s snarky…
With “The Forbidden Room,” Guy Maddin, co-directing with his former student Evan Johnson, has managed to out-Maddin even…
“The Assassin” is exactly what you would expect from a Hou Hsaio-hsien wuxia film, if you ever expected…