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A roundup of the reviews we filed…
The United States of America is a drag queen. Drunk, dressed in her shiniest finery, and thickly rouged, the American empire according to Jack Smith…
The dovetailing of a post-Free Solo film landscape with the advent of a mass production, streaming-focused documentary apparatus — exacerbated by the home-viewing requirements and…
The 2026 Toronto International Film Festival seems intent on making lightning strike twice. Last year, Obsession went from a Midnight Madness premiere to one of…
In the backseat of her parents’ car, an eight-year-old girl (Mason Reeves) searches the word “rape” on her mother’s phone. We only see her face…
If anyone watches The Violinist, there is a good chance this has something to do with the spotlight thrown upon it by its being awarded…
The pressure of representation weighs heavily on Abinash Bikram Shah’s Elephants in the Fog. With its accessible arthouse style and the sobriety of its subject…
Guatemala on-screen is underrepresented, fertile territory. Mad Mel’s Apocalypto is likely the region’s highest profile depiction, or you could look toward El Norte from Gregory…
Argentinean director Benjamín Naishtat garnered notice about 15 years ago, primarily with a trio of innovative, highly unusual feature films. 2014’s History of Fear was a nearly abstract nocturne focused on the various ways that a society can break down, turning its participants against one another. On a meta-level, it was about the different ways
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Only his second feature-length film after maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (2021), Sky Hopinka’s Powwow People is the director’s least tangibly experimental project to…
It’s fairly easy for an artist to commit themselves to a concept, less easy for them to do it justice through their art. Lê Bảo’s…
It’s a fair response for one to give less importance to mainstream directors when they downplay their themes or politics in interviews, for if the…
In this dispatch: July Reviews, Interviews…
Back when labels were willing to spend on them, music videos served as a legitimate pipeline for visual artists, places for them to cut their…
18 years after the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender and 12 years after the conclusion of its sequel series, The Legend of Korra, creators…
There isn’t a filmmaker out there quite like Danielle Arbid. The French-Lebanese director has crafted films about war, family, isolation, and the perils of love…
Three years ago, I wrote an essay arguing Allen Fong’s Ah Ying (1983) paints a more realistic picture of 1980s Hong Kong than Wong Kar-wai’s…
In this Roundup: Film Reviews…
In this gluttonous age of streaming, where art of all forms is cannibalized by the film industry in pursuit of content, the more particular art…
In this Roundup: Film Reviews…