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Wile E. Coyote Finally Lawyers Up

It was about time that Wile E. Coyote lawyered up. After decades of having Acme products blow up in his face while he’s blamed for the explosions...

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National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Sofia Coppola Wasn’t What Killed The Godfather Part III

The upcoming Dune installment got me thinking about the burden of following two great films. Few know the hazard better than Francis Ford Coppola. Not...

25.08.2026 7

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

The Samurai and the Prisoner: Who Decides Who Lives?

Winter, 1578. An envoy rides into Arioka Castle to tell its lord that his rebellion is arithmetic, and that he has done the arithmetic wrong. Custom...

16.08.2026 10

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Nolan Honors the Gods

When Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey was announced last year under a tagline promising to "defy the gods," I confess the phrase gave me...

18.07.2026 20

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Young Washington Finds the Man Beneath the Monument

Critics have dismissed Young Washington as hagiography, a marble idol buffed for the country’s 250th, and that is the one thing it is not. What...

11.07.2026 10

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Toy Story 5 Remembers What Playtime Is For

Thirty-one years after a cowboy first panicked over being replaced, Pixar can still find the ache under the plastic. The best sequence in Toy Story 5...

08.07.2026 10

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Citizen Vigilante Would Kill You for Obeying the Law

Editor’s note: This review contains spoilers. Twenty-eight minutes into Citizen Vigilante, our avenging angel pauses mid-coitus in a brothel to...

26.06.2026 100

National Review

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Pressure: Competent Men Get Their Due

The first face that Pressure shows you belongs to a young man who is drowning in the surf at Slapton Sands. It is April 1944, and on a Devon beach,...

27.05.2026 20

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

The Sheep Detectives: Out of the Clouds

Four seats to my right, a young couple had brought a blanket to the theater. They unfolded it as the lights came down and burrowed in like it was a...

10.05.2026 30

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Project Hail Mary: The Stars Want Us Happy

There is a scene early in Project Hail Mary that tells you everything about the kind of film you are watching. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a...

22.03.2026 20

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Grace After the Wreckage: Reminders of Him

I’ll confess: I walked into Vanessa Caswill’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel fully braced for manipulation, the Hallmark...

15.03.2026 30

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Midwinter Break Turns Our Gaze Upward

Midwinter Break has one of the best characters I’ve seen on screen in years. Her name is Stella Gilmore (Lesley Manville), a retired Irish...

25.02.2026 20

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Robert Duvall Left No Seams

Robert Duvall didn't belong to any era of Hollywood. He preceded New Hollywood, thrived in it, and outlasted it. He was a Mafia lawyer, a surfing...

17.02.2026 350

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Extinction as Feminism, or The Testament of Ann Lee

01.02.2026 20

National Review

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They Did Not Die in Vain: Venezuela and the Dream of Cuban Exiles

04.01.2026 90

National Review

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Quentin Tarantino Just Rescued Your Dad’s Favorite Movie

06.12.2025 20

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Addio, Bellissima: Remembering Claudia Cardinale

25.09.2025 30

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Robert Redford, the Statesman of American Cinema

17.09.2025 20

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Legacy over Clout: Spike Lee’s Kurosawa Remix

24.08.2025 20

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

A Win for Gina Carano — and the Culture

09.08.2025 20

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Congresswoman Delia Ramirez Forfeited Her Guatemalan-ness

07.08.2025 30

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

The Naked Gun Returns: Clapter Is Out, Laughter Is In

02.08.2025 20

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Superman vs. the Grift-Industrial Complex

12.07.2025 30

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

What to Watch on the Fourth of July

05.07.2025 30

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo

Showing Up: Five Films That Understand Fatherhood

16.06.2025 30

National Review

Giancarlo Sopo