Entertainment
Film Reviews and Box Office Success
Variety published reviews for 'The Assassin(s)' and 'Magazine,' both focusing on their unique storytelling approaches. Meanwhile, 'History Of Concrete' achieved a record-breaking box office performance at the IFC Center.
Coverage timeline — 3 articles
Variety
In an era when glamorous writing jobs have acquired the unreality of folklore, it feels fitting that Alexandra Pechman’s alluring and affectionate feature debut, “Magazine,” should portray its literary world as a fairy tale. Set in a faraway time — summer 2011 — when office flirtations were fun, amb
2026-09-20 20:53 UTC
Variety
Hur Jin-ho’s star-studded “The Assassin(s)” turns the holes in a public investigation into an imaginative mystery along the lines of Oliver Stone’s “JFK.” Like Stone’s provocative thriller, Hur crafts a clockwork political saga sure to spark curiosities about the attempted assassination of strongman
2026-09-20 20:58 UTC
Deadline
John Wilson’s The History Of Concrete had a record-breaking IFC Center debut, grossing $90k in three days for the top doc opening and the second-highest weekend gross in the NYC theater’s 21-year history after only Parasite ($119k in 2019). Nearly every available ticket sold for the entire wee
2026-09-20 21:00 UTC