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The Burmese python — an invasive species eating into native animal populations in the Florida Everglades — might be at the heart of Xander Robin’s…
Since stepping down as In Review Online’s Editor-in…
In Annihilation, Florida writer Jeff VanderMeer writes, “When you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.” That novel’s…
More an indictment of pop referentiality than a true reflection of psyche, the opening minute of Katarina Zhu’s Bunnylovr edges toward a pat diagnosis of…
Shot on a Sony PD150 handheld, with very few, if any, location permits, and a lead actress change halfway through production, City Wide Fever shouldn’t…
If you’re looking for a supposed “fresh set of eyes” in your criticism, I am the ideal audience for Mortal Kombat II. I haven’t seen…
Elliot Tuttle’s sophomore feature, Blue Film, arrives hot on the heels of controversy — or so we’re meant to believe. It premiered last year at…
No civilization without land was the starting point of Carl Schmitt’s definition of the nomos — the measure by which land “in a particular order…
The starting point for anything one might observe about the nature of money in the world today needs run, if one is to be sensible,…
Looking with a cynical eye, one might accuse Ildikó Eyendi — and not just in Silent Friend — of banality. The film’s three stories, taken…
Inside a brightly lit Dunkin’ Donuts, Tyler, a construction worker, meets another, Widgey, who is about to hire him for a home renovation job. Tyler…
Don Hardy’s career as a documentary filmmaker has spanned an eclectic range of themes that are bound, in some way, by an interest in mystery,…
In this dispatch: Every Contact Leaves…
Museums always claim to be the home for lost religious art/anthropological objects — Alain Resnais’ and Chris Marker’s Statues Also Die tackled this patronizing and…
The latest experimental documentary by Lynne Sachs — her 49th film overall — is entirely organized around a formal conceit that simply doesn’t work. That’s…
What better medium for communing with the spirits than film? Sights and sounds of eras since passed, or visions of things unknowable in reality —…
In 2020, Kevin B. Lee and Lého Galibert-Laîné released Bottled Songs 1-4, an epistolary essay film constructed via Lee’s desktop documentary method. Divvied up into…
The Kinshasa-based media group known as Collectif Faire-Part takes its name from their 2018 debut featurette, Faire-Part, about Congolese street performers. Earlier this year the…
Sometimes you just want to be scared. Is that too much to ask? Not if you’re Damian Mc Carthy. Across three features, the Irish director…
In this dispatch: A Date With Shirley…