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I'm glad I waited to see The Invite when it reached Prime Video because - while Olivia Wilde helms this forebodingly unpredictable sex comedy - it's not worth a trip to the multiplex. Adapted by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones from Cese Gay's Spanish film Sentimental (2020), based on his stage play, it's basically a four-hander, set in San Francisco.

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles says she believes music is "of the soul." Her new documentary, Sara Bareilles: Good Grief, has so much music, heart, creativity, and love that viewers will fill privileged Bareilles has opened her soul to us. I know I did. The often-self-deprecating performer likely would puncture that with a wry aside or an expletive-plenty of which are on display here.

Coyote vs. Acme is a delightful late summer surprise. This live-action/animated misadventure originated in Ian Frazier's 1990 humorous anti-corporate New Yorker satire, a mock court case in which Looney Tunes' resilient Wile E.

Acclaimed British-American actress, writer and director Rebecca Hall is serving as guest director for the 2026 Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. Hall is selecting a series of films to present at the 53rd festival, running Sept. 4-7. Festival organizers annually select a top film enthusiast to join in the creation of the festival's program lineup.

Late Fame is not so much about a frustrated artist but about someone who, having enjoyed fame once, wonders later in life if he really wants such attention again. Directed by Kent Jones ( Diane), this lived-in New York story stars an understated Willem Dafoe ( The Phoenician Scheme) as Ed Saxberger, a bohemian poet of the 1970s now sorting mail as a postal worker.

While the rest of the world and more than a few movies, obsess over evil AI's, Peter Howitt, whose notable works include Sliding Doors, Laws of Attraction and In the Name of the Father, the latter of which, I'm sorry to say I have yet to see, has opted for a far more classic evil: the demon child.

Three years after being shelved for a tax write-off, Coyote vs. Acme screeches into theaters, as much a metaphor for perseverance as its wily protagonist. Boulder-size expectations aside, it's delightful, a screwball, surprisingly poignant tribute to creativity, friendship, and that indefatigable super genius, Wile E. Coyote. Based on Ian Frazier's dryly brilliant short story in ​​The New Yorker, Coyote vs.

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists highlights movies made by and about women. With a vigilant eye toward current releases, we maintain an interactive record of films that are pertinent to our interests. Be they female-made or female-centric productions, they are films that represent a wide range of women's stories and present complex female characters.

With changing laws and an increased reliance of management and production on AI, the discussion about worker solidarity and collective bargaining, and about what's at stake for union members who are walking the picket lines to preserve their jobs, Labor Day celebrations rise to a new level of relevance. According to the Cornell University Labor Action Tracker, there have been 444 official labor actions - strikes and protests - taken across the USA thus far in 2026, from January 1 to September 1.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is an imaginative, gory parody. Credit writer/director Jane Schoenbrun for a truthful title for her Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. A sendup of slasher films that indulges that genre's expectations in clever, albeit alternately gory and erotic ways, the story is quite simple.