For a variety of reasons, 2016 marked my personal record for the most new films I've seen in any given year, which is simultaneously a triumph and a problem. More movies equals more choice, and I'm nothing if n...
Howard Hawks once defined a good movie as one with “three good scenes and no bad ones.” Whether or not you think he’s right — and he’s not massively wrong — it’s often the moments that make the movies for us, a...
September is here, and the fall film festivals have started —check out our Venice coverage so far, and our Telluride coverage starts tomorrow and TIFF next week. Nevertheless, the days are getting shorter and t...
June is here, and with Sundance, Berlin, SXSW and Cannes over, and the summer blockbuster season well underway, the year in the film world is starting to take shape. And while superhero clashes and fairy-tale r...
Life is unpredictable, love is complicated and will make you sick with happiness and nauseous from despair, and children will change everything you know about being an adult in an instant. Try as you might, the...
Rebecca Miller has created a screwball comedy for the rest of us. She smartly tackles modern family planning, the conundrum of destiny and has a Kathleen Hanna cameo in her latest film? In a recent sitdown with...
Obviously the biggest event of the summer is The Playlist moving to the shiny new digs in which you’re now seeing us. But seriously, the summer movie months are packed with films both big and small guaranteed t...
Welcome dear readers to this month of May at the movies. And, you know, no big deal or anything, but we've also moved into a new home here at THEPLAYLIST.NET. So we hope you've had a look around already, or wil...