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Every generation, James Bond is reborn, each time reflecting the zeitgeist of the times. Our last 007, Daniel Craig, began his run in Casino Royale, a film that was just as much about reinventing the character for a post-

The Tribeca Film Festival has been making headlines for its embrace of a fully A.I.-generated feature film, Dream of Violets. At a pivotal inflection point both for film festivals and Hollywood at large, many view the inclusion of the Iranian docudrama, and the festival’s insistence on

The seemingly endless expansion of the Drag Race IP and its showification of drag itself might make Stop! That! Train, directed by Adam Shankman and written by Connor Wright and Christina Friel, easy to dismiss as brand extension. It’s not not that—catchphrases from and references to Drag Race abound—but this daffy disaster comedy, w...

Jack Nicholson’s performance as Robert Eroica Dupea in Bob Rafelson’s 1970 road drama Five Easy Pieces is a marvel of carefully released physical energy. The actor can push himself out of a chair or roll a bowling ball contemptuously down a lane and tell you more about his character than many performers could with pages of motivational dialogue. Indeed, you ca...

To be reminded of the shock that Charade, Stanley Donen’s kitschy whodunit from 1963, was met with upon its release is to glimpse briefly at how suspense and horror have come to inform modern-day comedy films. Donen’s classic begins with the image of a corpse being thrown from a passenger train, the man’s dead eyes left to stare at the audience before the Tech...