'Baby Driver' Is An Action-Packed, Elegant Joyride
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Since his 2004 hit "Shaun of the Dead," British director Edgar Wright has made a string of action-filled...
View ArticleBreezy 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Offers A Trip Back To A Simpler Time
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. There have been three big-screen incarnations of the Marvel superhero Spider-Man. The part has been...
View Article'Lady Macbeth' Is An Icy British Psychodrama About Power And Abuse
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Film critic David Edelstein has a review of the new film "Lady Macbeth," set in rural England in 1865....
View Article'Dunkirk' Is A Harrowing War Movie, Muddled By A Convoluted Timeline
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The writer and director Christopher Nolan follows up his blockbuster sci-fi thriller "Interstellar"...
View Article'Detroit' Dramatizes A Deadly '67 Motel Encounter Between Police And Civilians
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal won Oscars for their 2008 film "The Hurt...
View ArticleA Killing On A Native American Reservation Propels The Mystery-Thriller 'Wind...
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Our film critic David Edelstein has a review of the new movie "Wind River," a mystery thriller set in...
View ArticleHaunting 'Marjorie Prime' Is Suffused With Forgiveness And Despair
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The new film "Marjorie Prime" is set in the near future in a world where people can purchase holographic...
View ArticleA Coney Island Teen Struggles To Come To Terms With His Sexuality In 'Beach...
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The best director's prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival went to Eliza Hittman for her drama "Beach...
View ArticleSelf-Aggrandizing, Interminable 'Mother!' Mixes Fantasy And Reality
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The new surreal horror film "Mother!" - that's mother with an exclamation point - is the seventh feature...
View Article'Trophy' Reveals The Convoluted Economics Of African Big Game Hunting
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The new documentary "Trophy" stirred a debate at this year's Sundance Film Festival over the complex...
View ArticleFarcical And Madcap, 'American Made' Stars Tom Cruise At His Best
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The new dark comedy "American Made" was inspired by the life of Barry Seal, who in the early 1980s helped...
View ArticleDon't Expect To Have Your Mind Blown By 'Blade Runner 2049'
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In 1982, director Ridley Scott's sci-fi detective thriller "Blade Runner" was released to good reviews but...
View ArticleDirector Agnes Varda And French Artist JR Team Up In Road Picture 'Faces...
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Our film critic David Edelstein has a review of "Faces Places," a documentary road movie made by the...
View Article'Novitiate' Captures A Watershed Moment In The Life Of The Catholic Church
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. This past January, Margaret Betts won the breakthrough director award at the Sundance Film Festival...
View Article'Lady Bird' Soars With An Intimate Portrait Of Mother-Daughter Angst
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Greta Gerwig is best known as an actress in such films as "Frances Ha" and "Mistress America." Now she's...
View Article'Three Billboards' Is a Vigilante-Revenge Thriller That Goes Off The Rails
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Film critic David Edelstein has a review of "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" starring Frances...
View ArticleDelusions Of Grandeur Take Center Stage In James Franco's 'Disaster Artist'
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In 2003, a huge billboard appeared on Sunset Boulevard advertising a movie called "The Room," directed...
View Article'I, Tonya' Offers A Sympathetic Second Act To A Disgraced Figure Skater
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In January 1994, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was struck on the leg with a police-style baton by a man...
View Article'Last Jedi' Puts The Smarts — And The Heart — Back Into The 'Star Wars'...
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Film critic David Edelstein has a review of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." It features actors who showed up...
View Article'Phantom Thread' Is Deeply Weird And Marvelously Entertaining
Copyright 2017 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. "Phantom Thread" is the latest film from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, whose acclaimed movies...
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