If 2020 was a long, dark winter for movie lovers—a season of some terrific pictures, sure, but also a long slog of having no choice but to stream everything at home—2021 has been the exuberant, ...
This story originally appeared on Hidden Remote. Movie fans always look forward to summertime! It’s when made-for-the-big-screen movie features premiere. Due to the pandemic, July 2021 is even more ...
Sometime in July, as the first Cannes Film Festival of the pandemic era was playing out half a world away, I sat down in an empty screening room in Los Angeles and watched “Memoria,” the latest movie ...
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. It has been a busy end-of-year time, with lots of new movies. This week is a bit of a ...
2021 started out as the year that everything was supposed to go back to “normal” regarding the movies, with theaters reopening and the pandemic receding into the background and a deluge of delayed ...
In many ways, 2021 still felt more like the worst of times than the best for movies, with a lot of quality projects being made for (or winding up on) streaming services while theaters tried, often in ...
Sometime in July, as the first Cannes Film Festival of the pandemic era was playing out half a world away, I sat down in an empty screening room in Los Angeles and watched “Memoria,” the latest movie ...
Even when a film wasn’t great, filmgoing was. But there were some truly wonderful releases, ranging from music docs and musicals to westerns and the just plain weird. By A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis ...