In their latest movie review for L.A. Weekly, critic Michael Atkinson shares his thoughts on Amsterdam, the new David O. Russell film that takes place in the ep...
In his latest movie review in L.A. Weekly, writer Michael Atkinson shares his thoughts on the film The Immaculate Room. Starring Emile Hirsch as Michael and Kat...
Reporter Michael Atkinson reviews film Summering, directed by James Ponsoldt, in his latest piece for the Village Voice. The film centers around four young midd...
Arriving amid a fat and pricey blitz of hype, Jordan Peele’s Nope is a willfully eccentric bear of a movie. You could call it Peelean. Like his earlier hits, Ge...
It obviously seemed like a great idea: make a Nicolas Cage movie about Nicolas Cage, simultaneously glorifying and satirizing Cage’s inimitable (but very imitab...
Joe Wright’s Cyrano is not the first musical version of the old Rostand chestnut: Wikipedia lists six different musicalizations in the past half-century – inclu...
More than anything else, Aaron Sorkin’s new masquerade-biopic, Being the Ricardos, is a master class in the diminishing returns of what we now call "Sorkinese."...
By now you can treasure Nicolas Cage without necessarily loving him or the movies he chooses to make, but there’s no denying his Bourdain-ish appetite for new a...
Just as the primacy of movies has taken multiple shots to the knees in recent years, what might be a “developing nation” renaissance of indigenous filmmaking se...
Working up a spritz in its humorless, predictable fashion, as if it were 1992 all over again, this grade-B thriller is working from a nobody script that’s been ...
