Making love out of nothing at all

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER

2022

Directed by Taika Waititi

Written by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and Taika Waititi

Spoilers: moderate

No cure for cancer

ANNIHILATION

No, I've never seen Stalker.  It is very long and Russian, and what makes you think these are selling points?  Annihilation, meanwhile, is frustrating, deeply so, but in some respects it is amazing, and it is just two hours long.

2018

Written and directed by Alex Garland (based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer)

With Natalie Portman (Lena), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Dr. Ventress), Tessa Thompson (Josie), Tuva Novotny (Cass), Gina Rodriguez (Anya), and Oscar Isaac (Kane)

Spoiler alert: mild

Here I reign

SONG TO SONG

Terry does it again.  (Whether that's a good thing or not remains, as always, a matter of taste.)

2017

Written and directed by Terrence Malick

With Rooney Mara (Faye), Ryan Gosling (B.V.), Natalie Portman (Rhonda), and Michael Fassbender (Cook)

Spoiler alert: mild

Darren Aronofsky, part VI: Nobody's ever asked a ballerina for a footjob, I can tell you that; certainly, not more than once

BLACK SWAN

Moving from one medium of the performing arts to another, Aronofsky arrives with an even harder-core portrait of the artist than the last, and that one was about a suicidal wrestler.

2010

Directed by Darren Aronofsky

Written by Andres Heinz, Mark Heyman, John MacLaughlin

With Natalie Portman ft. Sarah Lane (Nina Sayers), Barbara Hershey (Erica Sayers), Vincent Cassel (Thomas Leroy), Winona Ryder (Beth MacIntyre), and Mila Kunis (Lily)

Spoiler alert: moderate

I like these little calm moments before the storm

LEON

Would you believe that a Luc Besson movie has serious problems?  It's true!

1994

Written and directed by Luc Besson

With Jean Reno (Leon), Natalie Portman (Mathilda), and Gary Oldman (Stansfield)

Spoiler alert: moderate