“Lanthimos examines human emotion as a sort of mask that we wear, stripping his characters of time and place to observe the raw human animal. ‘Poor Things’ might be the purest distillation of this yet.”
“There is so much to adore in ‘Maestro,’ as Cooper’s supremely controlled vision touches greatness and sustains it.”
“‘Ferrari’ is a mixed portrait; a kind of freeze-frame of 50s masculinity, in all its ruthlessness and moral codes that have not adapted to a less binary society.”
“‘El Conde’ is an unhinged satire, more than any of recent memory.”
