Users, Natalia Almada’s new essayistic documentary, is a text at war with itself, equal parts poetic rumination on the place of modern technology in…
The challenge of representing larger-than-life figures is that it can be hard to fit them in frame. But what about figures who abstain from…
In This Issue: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2023: Blood For Dust (Rod Blackhurst) by Andrew Dignan // Afire (Christian Petzold) by Ryan Akler-Bishop // Somewhere Quiet (Olivia West…
With its uninviting snowbound setting, drab wood-paneled roadside motels and bars, and sudden explosions of gangland violence, there is a decidedly Fargo-like shape to…
It takes a few minutes to realize that there hasn’t been a single edit in Hugo Ruiz’s new film, One Night With Adela, and…
Anna Roller’s directorial debut, Dead Girls Dancing, boasts a quite familiar plot, following three German high schoolers who embark on a road trip throughout…
There’s the kernel of a fascinating Frankenstein adaptation at the center of Bomani J. Story’s directorial debut, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster.…
Pietro Marcello’s background in documentary work aided his first fiction debut, Martin Eden, as his penchant for handheld Super 16mm film gave a “being…
David Lynch, a filmmaker with an oeuvre so inimitable and a style so recognizable that he is one of a handful of directors whose…
Hot on the heels of his tepid Netflix spy show, FUBAR, the streamer has delivered a three-hour miniseries centering its star, the legendary Arnold…
Ji-na sits in a cubicle, with only a Keith Haring tissue box to distinguish this space from any other in the office. She talks…
Now with three feature films to his name as writer-director, Ted Geoghegan has carved out a nice niche for himself as a go-for-broke indie…
One of the most harrowing legacies of Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government had nothing to do with economics, labor unions, or privatization. Instead, Section 28…
“Do not fade. Do not wither. Do not grow old.” That is the command Orlando (Tilda Swinton) first receives from Queen Elizabeth (Quentin Crisp),…
There is a literary sensibility to Juan Felipe Zuleta’s directorial debut, Unidentified Objects, that operates in the tradition of an invisible reality. A frenetic…
A film about the creation of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos sounds like a bit of a farce, the subject matter seemingly better suited for a…
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts marks the seventh film in the long-running series based on the Hasbro toy line, and the second not directed…
Ever since he moved to Rome, Abel Ferrara has focused much of his directorial output on the land of his family: Pasolini, Piazza Vittorio,…