‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Review: A Cluttered Melodrama
Are people still firing up “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix? The viral success of that documentary felt like a peak-pandemic…
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Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in Pop Melodrama
Merciful Mother Mary, deliver us from evil. Or from whatever this risibly self-serious metaphysical nonsense about performance and possession, creation and…
Francesco Costabile’s Staid Family Melodrama
The title of Luigi Celeste’s memoir, “Non sarà sempre così”— which serves as the source material for Francesco Costabile’s more…
Birthday Melodrama: Billboard Crossword (Nov. 7, 2025)
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‘Two Pianos’ Review: Arnaud Desplechin’s Frenetic Melodrama
Minutes into “Two Pianos,” two former lovers unexpectedly run into each other in the narrow lobby of an venerable Lyon…
Willem Dafoe in a Murky Family Melodrama
No man is an island, except, perhaps, a man who owns one. The alienating, even dehumanizing effects of extreme wealth…
Or Sinai’s Cannes Selection Veers into Melodrama
“Mama,” director Or Sinai’s first narrative feature, proves the filmmaker as a keen character observer. Inspired by stories she heard…