More than half a century after The Beatles’ breakup, the band remains less a closed chapter than an ongoing excavation. Every few years, another corner of the mosaic gets dusted off and reframed. With Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, director Morgan Neville doesn’t attempt to solve the whole 10,000-piece puzzle. Instead, he zeroes in on one crucial, often misunderstood stretch: the years immediately following the split, when McCartney was forced to answer a question no one had

On paper, How to Make a Killing  sounds like a sure thing. A remake of the deliciously cruel Kind Hearts and Coronets . Glen Powell on death row, narrating his ascent up (and through) a gilded family tree. Ed Harris glowering as the patriarchal final boss. A24’s stamp of approval. A jaunty, eat-the-rich premise that promises gallows humor with a side of social commentary. Execution, however, is everything. And John Patton Ford’s film, so meticulous in recreating the bones of

Emerald Fennell’s "Wuthering Heights" arrives trailing quotation marks, caveats, and an almost aggressive insistence that this is not Wuthering Heights  so much as “ Wuthering Heights. ”  From the moment it was announced, the project promised provocation: Charli XCX on the soundtrack, latex textures in the production design, and a filmmaker whose reputation was built on weaponized aesthetics and bad behavior. What it ultimately delivers is something far stranger and more disa

Sam Raimi’s Send Help  strands two people on a deserted island and then does the cruelest thing imaginable: it refuses to tell you, with any certainty, who deserves to be saved. What begins as a high-concept survival thriller quickly curdles into something sharper and stranger; a labor satire, a power-play psychodrama, and a gross-out morality tale that keeps slipping the moral high ground out from under your feet. It’s the most alive Raimi has felt in years, not because he’s

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Jason Statham plays a man with a violent past who has chosen exile over absolution, only for circumstance to drag him back into the life he’s trying to escape. Shelter knows exactly how familiar that premise sounds, and to its credit, it doesn’t pretend otherwise. Instead, director Ric Roman Waugh leans into the well-worn grooves of the Statham action thriller and tries, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, to sand them down into som

Mercy begins with a question it seems very proud of asking: what if ChatGPT could kill you? Not metaphorically ruin your afternoon or confidently hallucinate your demise, but literally execute you, right there in a courtroom, after skimming your browser history and deciding you’d had enough chances. It’s an enticing hook, one that promises a paranoid techno-thriller about surveillance, justice, and the quiet terror of living under an algorithm that knows you better than you k