Following Pacifiction, his seventh and most technically elaborate narrative film, Albert Serra did something unexpected: he produced his first full-length documentary. Afternoons of Solitude…
Eva Victor wants you to know that the cat is okay. “I feel like we should have put out a PSA!” they tell me…
Why is it that in the nation of Spain, a nation whose siestas evince a clear cultural supremacy over their efficiency-imprisoned neighbors, regularly invites…
M3GAN wasn’t born — or built, or whatever — to play it safe. Gerard Johnstone’s 2022 tech-toy horror is, charitably, a good time, the…
For a film set on the Iberian Peninsula, it’s no surprise that the title Hot Milk raises some questions. Adapted from Deborah Levy’s novel…
As a Latinx intersex sex worker, Ponyboi (River Gallo) is well-versed in the indignity of precarity: a simple exchange with a pharmacist, for instance,…
Dale Dickey is a beloved veteran character actor, having enjoyed a career that spans over 30 years of consistent, quality work. Typically inhabiting the…
Filmmakers Will Howarth and Tom McKeith are walking a fine line with their new feature film In Vitro, a low-key dramatic thriller that incorporates…
Socrates: The main question I want to ask is whether a lifetime spent scratching, itching and scratching, no end of scratching, is also a…
The purest, and arguably most puerile, definition of auteurism necessitates a neat classification of artistic idiosyncrasies. The governing principle behind this approach is to…
Until semi-recently, Formula 1 racing was only immensely popular pretty much all over the world except in the United States, but a combination of…
It’s girthy, oversized, gold-encrusted, evocative of pain more than pleasure. No, I’m not talking about the massive enameled penis that makes a couple appearances…
The popular conception of sexuality in America has doubtless expanded since the turn of the century, but its depiction on mainstream screens somehow has…
It wasn’t his debut or even his first major work, but Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s opening credits to Tropical Malady deliver perhaps the moment that summarizes…
Mani Ratnam is considered one of India’s finest directors, particularly among those working in the Tamil language, and is coming off a two-part critical…
Decades in the making but arguably being released five years prematurely, 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle’s follow-up to 2002’s seminal, lo-fi zombie film 28…
Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré have amassed a remarkable body of work, and “body” is certainly an apt descriptor. Their intimate and playful films…
Local, low-budget theatre demands enthusiastic commitment from its participants that almost always exceeds the profits and artistic achievements they can expect at the end…