History repeats itself: Eleven Decembers ago, Universal had the season’s strongest movie. With a bare minimum of advance screenings and a shocking absence of hype, the studio dumped it. This year, ...

Children of Men envisions a dystopian future where infertility has brought the world to its knees in a story frighteningly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. In the opening moments of Children Of Men, a man walks into ...

Released in 2006 to critical acclaim and three Academy Award nominations, Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men is one of the best in his oeuvre, which is saying something. For longtime film fans, this ...

Heavy hitters like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Gravity may have been standouts in Alfonso Cuarón’s career, but to this day, nothing can hold a candle to Children of Men. The film was ...

One thing the world has come to realize during these chaotic and disturbing times, when freedom, liberty, and humanity are constantly being contained, is that art is inevitable and necessary. Cinema, ...

Demographic decline is imminent, and it is producing cultural challenges for society. Civic unrest is high, the government and citizens clash in the streets and the state acts in ways that are ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. The film is adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” in which a wealthy businessman ...

Ric Roman Waugh didn’t plan on making Greenland 2: Migration. “We never thought there'd be a second movie,” the director of 2020’s Greenland and its 2026 sequel tells Polygon. “There never was ...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón goes to New York for his latest short holiday film. Called “An Almost Christmas Story” (now streaming on Disney+), the musical animated short follows Moon, a ...

Long takes have taken over TV, but it's been a uniquely cinematic trick for decades. Few cinematic tools are used as often — and as badly — as the oner. Also known as a long take or a one shot, a oner ...