Since his 2011 debut feature Snowtown, Justin Kurzel’s films have displayed a laser-like focus on rough, sometimes savage men and the environments that foster their…
Six years ago, Mike Leigh produced his first war film, Peterloo, in which domestic unrest in 1819 led British troops to slaughter protesting civilians. At…
As Werewolves opens, we’re informed that the previous year a supermoon event turned everyone who came into contact with moonlight into a werewolf, leading to…
David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers opens with a group of four mischievous young kids (portrayed by the real-life siblings Homer, Ulysses, Arlo, and Atlas Janson) who,…
One of the more indelible sequences in Joshua Oppenheimer’s breakthrough documentary, The Act of Killing, features one of its subjects, the Indonesian paramilitary thug Anwar…
When Don (Shea Whigham) gets out of prison, the job he had thought was all set up for him upon release falls through and he’s…
“Is what you’re doing worth a child’s tears?” a stranger asked Georgian filmmaker Nutsa Gogoberidze as she was heading off to make her film Uzhmuri…
As of the publication of this review, there are 119 Letterboxd reviews logged for Chloe Abrahams’ debut feature The Taste of Mango. In one capsule…
Set in 1992 Peru, Reinas follows Carlos (Gonzalo Molina), a father reconnecting with his daughters Aurora (Luana Vega) and Lucía (Abril Gjurinovic) in the weeks…
Last night, I had a dream. A marquee glowed orange-tungsten. Large black letters: JURASSIC PARK. I was there with my son Aphid. We were in…
The Girl with the Needle, the third feature film by Swedish director Magnus von Horn, wastes no time in announcing to the viewer that it…
In the opening moments of Nightbitch, director Marielle Heller appears alongside her star Amy Adams, both playing frustrated mothers in a grocery store. Both Heller…
The title gives it away. Before one even begins watching Paul Schrader’s latest, the tone is effectively set by a little writerly in-joke of changing…
As titles go, the latest from Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof epitomizes a rare fidelity to its subject. The Seed of the Sacred Fig, quite possibly…
“Beware of narrative and form. Their power can bring us closer to the truth, but they can also be a weapon with a great power…
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s Gaucho Gaucho is a mesmerizing study of form and image-making, a film as preoccupied with its subjects as it is…
Coming on the heels of Thursday’s Thanksgiving football, it’s fitting when discussing Our Little Secret to take a quick look back at seemingly innocuous moment…
There are few rings of cinematic hell worse than bad broad comedies. Watching Rasmus Merivoo’s Alien 2 or: The Return of Valdis in 17 Episodes…
When I attended the International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this year, I was struck by the festival’s efforts to cut its slate, having gone from…
Arriving at the Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) in Estonia this year, I found myself witness to a brewing controversy. Deaf Lovers, a new film…