At the beginning of Lucrecia Martel’s first feature-length documentary, Our Land (originally titled Landmarks), we’re presented with satellite images of Earth. From this zoomed out…
Throughout Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ documentary Cover-Up, Seymour “Sy” Hersh, claims that he does not psychoanalyze himself. The irony is that the legendary journalist…
A visual motif that reoccurs throughout Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest film, A Private Life, is a spiral staircase. Beyond being chic and Parisian in the way…
YouTubers, TikTokers, and Letterboxd users made a major fuss over the desaturated color-grading of Jon M. Chu’s musical Wicked: Part One, turning its visual palette…
In Kunsang Kyirong’s feature 100 Sunset, the camera roots itself deep within a tight-knit community of Tibetan immigrants in Toronto, the film taking place during…
Jonatan Etzler’s Bad Apples takes place somewhere in the United Kingdom, most likely a studio somewhere near Bristol, though it may as well be mistaken…
The “end of the world” feels close for a group of Japanese teenagers in Neo Sora’s debut feature Happyend. Set in the not so distant…
Tamara Stepanyan’s film In the Land of Arto begins with a service interruption that functions as a metaphor. Céline (Camille Cottin) is traveling by train…
Nisha Ganatra’s film Freakier Friday is the perfect case study in Disney’s endlessly stretchable IP. The idea for it all started with Mary Roger’s 1972…
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s newest film, Harvest, begins on the precipice of change. Based on Jim Crace’s novel of the same name, Tsangari’s adaptation is set…
Girls is Lena Dunham’s magnum opus. The irony is that she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the HBO classic at the ripe age of…
With The Dells, director Nellie Kluz delivers a work of nonfiction that exists in some strange space between shifts at the “Shore Store” from Jersey…
Miguel Gomes first began to build attention in the United States with his film Our Beloved Month of August in 2008. Since then, the Portuguese…
Shula (Susan Chardy) makes an early impression in Rungano Nyoni’s newest film, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. Driving home from a fancy dinner party, adorned…
Like every other movie in the franchise, Michael Morris’ fourth installment, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, begins with a prologue delivered by Bridget Darcy…
No one works harder than the Wicked Witch of the West. Since entering the public domain in 1956 with the rest of the characters from…
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…
Lithuanian myths, folk songs, and hallucinations guide Deimantas Narkevičius’s film Twittering Soul. Set in the late 19th century before the Lumière Brothers began making films…
Throughout Nora Fingscheidt’s film The Outrun, we are thoroughly stuck in Rona’s (Saoirse Ronan) head. Fresh out of rehab, Rona has returned to the Orkney…
Asmae El Moudir plays with multiple perspectives in her hybrid documentary The Mother of All Lies. Shot over the course of 10 years in Morocco,…
At it’s best, Justin Baldoni’s It Ends with Us manages to evoke Stephen King’s It. Based on Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name, the…