Every grain of sand: Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster remains, for all its bombastic bricolage of religious and cinematic iconography, a stolidly professional and surprisingly unimaginative adaptation of the sci-fi classic
It belongs in a museum: the latest big-screen adventure featuring Harrison Ford’s grizzled archeologist only faintly recalls the streamlined pleasures of series highpoint, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Old school: the great action director talks about his latest, and the way in which the “elegant simplicity” of the western provides “primal fodder for a filmmaker”
The age of gold: a new series spotlights the brave new filmmaking of 1962, '63, and '64, after the wane of the studio era and before the rise of New Hollywood
Urban decay: Despite Matt Reeves’s tip-top casting and his usual virtuosity, the latest Caped Crusader reboot fails to reimagine this by-now commonplace material
Cloak and dagger: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s engrossing World War II tale embeds an exposé of Japan’s bio-weapons program in the drama of a couple’s dueling loyalties
