Ambition can be slippery in the hands of the stoner. With her debut feature, The Wrong Girls, Dylan Meyer sets her aspirations at the height…
In Mark H. Rapaport’s Godhead, the world would seem to start and end between the walls of the church. In fact, this specific church commands…
If you haven’t heard, Gen Z isn’t getting laid. Sex — who’s having it, and more importantly, who’s not — is paramount in Gregg Araki’s…
A life sentence would seem to afford you a good deal of thinking time. But for Akutsu, a former yakuza facing his last days on…
There’s no place like home. For Joe (Seth Rogen), home has metastasized into such a calamity that it’s all he can think about when he’s…
John Early is a tightrope artist. There’s little about his debut feature, Maddie’s Secret, that should work. With the DNA of a comedy sketch, Maddie’s…
Another World offers a reprieve from Western visions of a dreary, Catholic purgatory. “Another World” — both the film’s title and its proper name for…
At the start of Manas, Tielle’s world seems boundless, idyllic. Tielle, short for Marcielle, is a 13-year-old girl played with astounding maturity by Jamilli Correa.…
Passenger starts with a prayer. “Carry me safely to my destined place, like you carried Christ in your close embrace,” ends the prayer to St.…
Saccharine was inevitable. In the Western world, there’s never been a worse time to have a body. Navigating the Internet is an exercise in polarity…
“The working man is a sucker” — so reads the opening title card of Joel Alfonso Vargas’ debut feature, Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny,…
In the age of virality, who will remember the snuff film? 1978’s Faces of Death, a documentary-style gorefest, is the stuff of dorm-room legend. “They…
Where do you go once you’ve reached the top? By 2007, Juliette Binoche was running out of peaks to summit: she’d won international acclaim with…
Balthazar — or Balthy, as he would be to his friends, if he had any — is a bright kid. But when your family’s rich…
Marc Jacobs is everywhere. In Marc by Sofia — the Sofia of the title being Coppola — the Lost in Translation director makes a case…
James Benning is a master of moments. Over a career that spans five decades and twice as many modal deviations, Benning abstracts the American Problem…
Dolly lays its porcelain head at the altar of Leatherface. Rod Blackhurst’s bootstraps indie horror is unabashedly pious toward The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the seminal…
We need to talk about Tommy. In Jan Komasa’s Heel, Tommy (Anson Boon) is a proper hooligan. His nights out mean rails of cocaine in…
You might not know Nick Corirossi, but if you’ve spent enough time in alt-comedy circles, you may have heard of his alter-ego. “Bug Mane” is…
Bebe Go’s 11 starts with a concession: “in february 2020, i received a grant to make a feature film,” reads its lime-green title cards. “the…
In “Wuthering Heights” — as Emerald Fennell sees it — death and ecstasy rest on the head of the same pin. Its opening credits are…