The Real Thing isn’t without considerable flaws, but it still allows plenty to percolate across its behemoth runtime. The unspoken commonality of all the…
Joaquin Phoenix’s first scene in Beau Is Afraid takes place in his therapist’s office, setting the story in motion while also presenting a roadmap…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Re-Interrogating the Body: An Interview With Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel by Ryan Akler-Bishop Dead Ringers by Igor Fishman KICKING…
Since the late 1960s, readers of a certain age have been discovering and devouring Judy Blume’s books. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,…
Anthropologist-filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s work dissolves the space between their camera and their subject. Previous films Leviathan and Caniba both treat their…
Art is subjective, as is the concept of firsts. Hilma af Klint can be classed as the first abstract painter, years before the more…
The hardest working man in show business, otherwise known as John Swab, is back with One Day as a Lion, the director’s third feature…
Little Richard, born Richard Wayne Penniman, is a complicated figure in rock ‘n’ roll history not just because of the way his legacy as…
Everybody knows a low-stakes liar. Whether it’s Instagram exaggerations or anecdotes reconfigured to place themselves as the hero, this kind of one-upmanship is practically…
The first thing one is likely to notice about Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is how ugly its characters look. Their eyes are empty of…
It’s perhaps unfair to say that divorce dramas have had too great a resurgence in recent years. The genre is by its nature a…
André (André Dussollier) has a case of deep vein thrombosis in his right leg, complicated by a pulmonary embolism. He’s also just had a…
On her debut album With a Hammer, Korean-American singer, DJ, and producer Kathy Yaeji Lee, a.k.a. Yaeji, works through an intricate web of emotions…
Now on her fifth feature, Rebecca Zlotowski’s films are populated with complicated women. The director has a knack for capturing doubts and quietly subverting…
Superficially, it would be easy to locate filmmaking duo Jimmy Chin and Elisabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s documentary inclinations at some loose nexus of survival stories,…
Nearly half a decade removed from a breakout, self-titled EP, boygenius returns with the record, the indie sad girl supergroup’s first full length. While…
Given his recent critically and commercially successful, Oscar-winning film Drive My Car, it was only a matter of time before Japanese arthouse director Ryusuke…
Religious iconography and the unofficial symbols of nationalism, when not one and the same, serve a similar purpose. A vehicle, a symbol of salvation…