Review: “Emilia Pérez”

Jacques Audiard has been directing movies for 30 years, often playing with genre— from the crime picture A Prophet to the romantic drama Rust and Bone to the western The Sisters Brothers— but I wish I could be more impressed by the supreme confidence with which he pulls off his most audacious feature to date, […]

Review: “Saturday Night”

In 2008, Jason Reitman served as a guest writer and director on Saturday Night Live for one week. The filmmaker already had two acclaimed features under his belt— the 2005 satire Thank You For Smoking and the 2007 coming-of-age comedy Juno— but cites participating in the freewheeling energy that goes into mounting the weekly live […]

Review: “Joker Folie à deux”

Joker Folie à deux opens with the sort of stylishly vacuous sequence director Todd Phillips is so great at realizing: an animated short modeled after Warner Brothers’ vintage Looney Tunes cartoons starring Joker— the psychopathic clown with a sadistic sense of humor, most known for existing as the arch villain to DC Comics’ superhero Batman— […]