ScreenThe New Hollywood Ran on Studio Fear. That Was Its Genius and Its Limit.
The 1970s New Hollywood was made possible by institutional panic, sustained by honest filmmaking, and ended by the blockbuster the directors themselves invented.
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Milt Calloway reviews film and television with the honesty of someone who has watched thousands of movies and is done being polite.
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ScreenWhat to Watch When You Don't Know What to Watch
Four films across different eras and genres that earn the two hours you give them.
ScreenWhat Is Film Noir
Milt Calloway on what film noir actually is, where it came from, and why its visual grammar is still being written.
TelevisionThree Versions of the Same Fear
Javier Bardem plays Max Cady in the third telling of a story that has already been told twice. Here is what the third telling gets right.
ScreenBest Black and White Movies: What the Absence of Color Actually Does
A guide for anyone who has seen the obvious choices and wants to know where to go next, from someone who has spent a long time in the dark watching what light can do.
ScreenBest Movie Directors of All Time
Milt Calloway's diagnostic read on the best movie directors of all time: not who made great films, but what each gave to cinema that didn't exist before them.
ScreenWhat Is Neorealism in Film
Milt Calloway traces Italian neorealism from postwar Rome to its influence on the films being made right now.
ScreenThe Golden Age of Hollywood Was Real. So Was the Cost.
What made the studio era's films extraordinary, and what the machine extracted from the people inside it.
ScreenThe Devil Wears Prada 2: Miranda Priestly Is Reason Enough
Meryl Streep carries a legacy sequel that earns most of what it asks for.
ScreenWhat to Watch This Weekend: Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie's Oscar-nominated ping pong epic just landed on HBO Max. Clear your evening.
Film ReviewGo Watch Anora
Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner is streaming now, and it is the most alive movie I've seen in years.
Film ReviewThe Brutalist Is Worth Every Minute
Brady Corbet's three-and-a-half-hour epic about a Hungarian architect in America is the most ambitious film in years, and it earns its running time.