A man emerges from the forest, destitute. We follow him as he shambles through the streets, parks, hills, and graveyards of Cluj-Napoca. It’s his last…
In Kevin and Matthew McManus’ Redux Redux, Irene Kelly (Michaela McManus) vaults through an endless sequence of parallel realities, searching for a universe where her…
Zodiac Killer Project is, put simply, a strange undertaking. Charlie Shackleton’s expansively stripped-down documentary emerged from a thwarted attempt to adapt Lyndon E. Lafferty’s 2012…
“Isn’t it obvious?” The question, volleyed by a PHD student at her trusted mentor, hangs in the air of a darkly lit stairwell as the…
The thing about I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) — itself an adaptation of Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel — is that it already…
Fans of Nora Ephron be warned: Materialists has been grossly mismarketed. Fresh off the success of her Oscar-nominated Past Lives, it seemed puzzling that Celine…
Central to Danny and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me was the idea that the universe doesn’t play fair. In horror movies, promethean punishments are doled…
In an early scene from The Woman in the Yard, a mother walks in on her toddler reading Little Red Riding Hood to a treasured…
“This must be my punishment,” narrates Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson), as he recalls the frog he tortured in a grade school science class. Mickey is…
In Halfdan Ullman Tøndel’s single-location psychodrama Armand, the titular character is both an elephant in the room and a structuring absence from it. The six-year-old…
Universal Language is, at its core, a community portrait. Matthew Rankin’s second feature was co-written and imagined by friends and collaborators Pirouz Namati and Ila…
Grand Theft Hamlet is not what it says on the tin. Opening shots of landscape simulacra make readily apparent the aesthetic promise of staging a…
“You can be beautiful or you can be ugly, but you can’t be plain,” says Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) to tentative sweetheart Sylvie Russo (Elle…
Engaged in a lengthy process of simultaneous expansion and refinement, the indefatigable Hong Sang-soo seems to practice a new, yet knowingly familiar, alchemy with each…
“You’re an improbable person, and so am I. We have that in common. Also a contempt for humanity. An inability to love or be loved.…
Lauded cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto — credited for Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon within the same calendar year — makes his directorial debut with…
Almost 50 years into a career enriched and enlivened by restless motion, Robert Zemeckis tries his hand at total stasis with his latest film Here.…
Just shy of 10 years after winning an ill-deserved Palme d’Or for Dheepan (2015) — a leering intrusion into the lives of a makeshift Sri…
A smog of displacement and destiny envelops the opening minutes of La Cocina. As a homeless man on the streets of Manhattan waxes poetic about…
Skye Riley is in trouble. One year after a near-fatal car crash, which exposed her mental health and substance abuse issues for all to see,…
Deep in the Himalayan wilderness, surrounded by a swelling symphony of wing-beats, two figures wait patiently in the dark. Indian lepidopterist Mansi is on the…