Emma Murphree

Nearly coinciding with the glitzy and illustrious New York Film Festival, MVFF is like its equally cool younger sister. She deserves attention, too!

There is a richness to Priscilla’s (Cailee Spaeny) life that the movie assumes as a baseline, despite the fact that it’s all internally contained. Deprived of the life experiences that might form this inner life into something concrete, it needs to be coaxed out filmically.

If we are perennially doomed to live in a world where art is advertising and advertising is art, one the best possible outcomes would be a collaboration between Yves Saint Laurent and Pedro Almodóvar. “Strange Way of Life” sets out to scratch this incredibly niche itch — but can’t quite reach all the way.

It's a nostalgia record, a cheapened, easy kind of art — but also more forgivable if you’re a rock veteran.

“The Idol” exists because it's powered by the widespread neuroses of digital media. At what point do we put our foot down?

Given Dalí’s commitment to surrealism and general wackiness, it's rather unfortunate that “Dalíland” doesn’t dial up the weird factor.

“The movie is so much about looking at your own life and the connections that you have, the inyeon that you have, … to see what is extraordinary about those connections themselves, even though they may seem mundane and average,” Song said in an interview with the Daily Californian.

Tumor’s setlist was fashioned carefully to favor their latest record without feeling inaccessible to those who are more familiar with their past work.

In “About My Father,” comedian Sebastian Maniscalco casts the patron saint of Italian Americans, Robert De Niro, as his own father — because when you’re a relatively unknown comedian repackaging your already mediocre standup material as a movie, you desperately need something to sell the tickets.

The resolution of the GoJo merger unspools in the final episode of “Succession” with an exponential absurdity that stuffs every moment of its 90-minute runtime with even more shifting loyalties, power plays and brutal verbal takedowns than we have come to expect.