Glass Onion introduces us to the eclectic cast of characters with a puzzling invitation. And I mean that literally.
Tag: Rian Johnson
Skywalker rises above slippery story slopes
The script is sometimes wanting, but Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a fun conclusion to the movie saga.
Luke Skywalker still has lessons to learn in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Writer-director Rian Johnson honors the franchise’s long history of pedagogy.
This week’s movies, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
A big, lengthy thumbs up for ‘The Brothers Bloom’ and Rian Johnson
“You’ve felt betrayed but found that the movie was loyal after all. You’ve cared about blatantly artificial characters. You’ve regained some of your humanity, and some of your faith in it.”
Opening this week
New films by Kirby Dick, Steven Soderbergh, Olivier Assayas, Atom Egoyan, Carlos Saura, and Rian Johnson.
Johnson shows his Bloom
“Brick” director Rian Johnson talks about his new caper film “The Brothers Bloom,” starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Rinko Kikuchi, at two Landmark screenings Saturday.
The new, improved art film: more fireballs
The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson’s follow-up to his oddball noir Brick, premieres at the Toronto film festival.
Teenage Noir
Rian Johnson re-creates the moral anarchy of a Dashiell Hammett mystery in a modern high school.