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By the time Eastwood himself actually shows up for a minute in the second act, the star grinning at us from inside a motel TV that’s airing a fuzzy broadcast of the 1968 Western “Hang ‘Em High,” the nod seems almost as inevitable and indebted as one of those Stan Lee cameos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But if superhero movies have unsurprisingly managed to outlive Stan Lee, a film as functional and flavorless as “The Marksman” suggests that Eastwoodism will die along with the man who inspired it....

Vinterberg’s career has weaved and bobbed over the years, but he’s hardly a newcomer to the Oscar season blitz: Vinterberg’s 2012 thriller “The Hunt” was nominated seven years ago, and “Another Round” reunited him with that movie’s star, Mads Mikkelsen. Here, the actor plays a high school teacher who joins a couple of pals in attempting to drink booze throughout the day to evade their midlife crises. The movie oscillates between dark comedy and tragedy, with a woozy sense of determination steeped in the tragic backdrop to the project....

“The score for ‘Titane’ grows from a short theme for a scene where the protagonist leaves home in startling circumstances,” Williams said in a statement. “Initially in a contemporary popular music style with a tinge of John Barry, later this was set with metal percussion and male voice choir using the Neapolitan Minor for a scene set in a car. As the film develops the theme takes on an emotional, darker twist....

As with his other Palme d’Or winner “The Square,” the Swedish filmmaker puts power on trial and turns social hierarchies on their heads to reveal the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model Carl and his girlfriend Yaya (Dickinson and Charlbi Dean) are invited on board a luxury cruise for the mega rich, with an unhinged captain (Woody Harrelson) at the helm. What at first seems Instagram-ready unravels into a spectacle of catastrophe and, as IndieWire’s David Ehrlich wrote out of the Cannes Film Festival, “a seasick eruption of shit and vomit so intense that it manages to engender sympathy for some of the worst people in the world....

The decentralized festival means that this year, Tribeca won’t be defined by making the daily trek to Manhattan to watch films and take meetings. New York-based agents and buyers say they’re looking forward to meeting in person and leveraging the long-awaited return of word-of-mouth buzz. But many in Los Angeles are still relying on Zoom and the festival’s online platform to do their work. Maria Zuckerman, head of Topic Studios, has three films at the festival, all for sale: the Vanessa Kirby-starring “Italian Studies,” Leonard Bernstein deep-dive documentary “Bernstein’s Wall,” and “Dear Mr....

Part of the charm and the tension of the Tom Hardy-starring “Venom” franchise has been its relative disinterest in lacing its action with that of both Sony’s own Spider-Man franchise and the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe. Eddie Brock and the alien symbiote (AKA Venom) who infects (and then charms?) him are long-established members of the Spider-Man fracas, both as antagonists and pals. And while both “Venom” and its new sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” mostly exist outside the increasingly convoluted world of both Spidey and his Avengers pals, even these wonderfully zany features have to provide a few nods to the wider world....

With David Fincher’s long-awaited “Mank,” about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s quest to finish the screenplay for “Citizen Kane,” finally on Netflix, this weekend’s a great time to revisit the director’s other work. You can take a look at David Ehrlich’s ranking of all of Fincher’s films here, and read on to find out where to watch them all below. “Alien³” (1992) “Alien³” (1992) Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley in this 1992 film that turned the “Alien” movies into a franchise, and also served as 27-year-old Fincher’s first big-budget studio directing gig....