Clerks III is a fans-only venture that’s sunk by a childishness devoid of wonder and poignant moments consistently undermined by self-mockery. In Arthur Penn’s 1967…
See How They Run is an amiable, nerdy romp that draws upon theater history, Agatha Christie, and even Wes Anderson to create a jaunty exercise…
Riotsville, USA traces an alternate history on top of official record and crafts an incisive examination that is as hypnotic as it is fervent. It’s…
Padre Pio Disclaimer: It’s important to acknowledge the severity of the accusations of abuse made against both Shia LaBeouf and Asia Argento, and clarify…
After 2017’s Nico, 1988 and 2020’s Miss Marx, Italian writer-director Susanna Nicchiarelli brings her unofficial women-of-history trilogy to a close with Chiara. While the…
Huang Ji is among the last handful of Chinese directors to sneak through the portal distribution company dGenerate Films, the center of an important…
Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva is a soulless mega-franchise starter that does very little of interest with its massive budget. Chances are, you already know…
It can sometimes feel that Hold Me Tight coasts by on mood alone, but Amalric maximizes that mode, orchestrating his film’s disorienting tone with…
God’s Country is an arrogant and painfully writerly project that is only occasionally uplifted on the strength of its visual flourish. A classic sort…
Sandwiched in the middle of the late-summer/early-autumn run of major international film festivals, coming on the heels of Locarno, Venice, and Telluride and immediately…
Pinocchio is a fascinating late-period work from Zemeckis, one that takes in the full scope of his career as he wills us to believe in…
Cousins’ latest The Story of Film entry largely trades in hyperbole, platitude, and bland observation, rendering it little more than a 150-minute trailer binge. For…
Honk For Jesus’ plot is unevenly distributed and its tone a bit imbalanced, but it ultimately lands as a solid sendup of toxic church culture…
Master Gardener In hindsight, Paul Schrader’s career has been a repeated jettisoning and reappropriation of extraneous artiness, new off-kilter filmic shapes of inscrutable quality…
Camarera de piso — Lucrecia Martel’s latest short, commissioned as part of The National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Síntesis project — comes with a…
In an interview with Michael Guarneri, Lav Diaz states quite emphatically that “tragedy and suffering are an inherent part of man’s existence and death…
It’s the pillowing warmth of nostalgia, which sporadically rears its head that it may provide orientation and affirm consciousness amidst historical chaos, that makes…
The Cathedral is D’Ambrose’s portrait of the artist as a young man, a bracingly vigorous work and a precise survey of emotional turmoil. After a…