In all the consternation over the disappearance of the theatrical comedy, a trend hastened by post-Covid viewing habits that find comedies being largely relegated to…
Did you know that because 1985’s Red Sonja, which starred Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger, was not actively based on Conan creator Robert Howard’s character…
Carlos Reygadas’s Silent Light (2007) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, where it won the Jury Prize, and has since remained one of…
“Trauma horror,” or “grief horror,” has become so ubiquitous that the subgenre has infiltrated even the most quotidian commercial horror films; it seems that the…
The Dead of Winter The cold is often a conduit for ardent symbolism, whether in the frozen recesses of repressed memories or in the merciless…
The cold is often a conduit for ardent symbolism, whether in the frozen recesses of repressed memories or in the merciless invocation of human hubris…
Unlike the big three international film festivals (Cannes, Venice, and Berlin), Locarno does not traditionally feel an obligation to elevate domestic product into its competition.…
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…
Jérôme Reybaud’s concise, lacerating film A Balcony in Limoges appears at first to be an odd-couple comedy, albeit with unresolved psychological trouble churning under the…
Delicately unfurling as an introductory vocabulary lesson, one informed by the portraiture at the film’s core — that of the formidable Thi Hau Cao, a…
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. When Tony Tost’s Americana, a flyover country-set crime drama built around an interconnected ensemble, premiered at the…
Perhaps as a means of drawing in a greater number of genre fans, the full title of Jimmy and Stiggs is being reported on some…
Director Benjamin Caron and actor Vanessa Kirby have previously worked together to great effect: Caron directed the episode of The Crown which netted Kirby an…
If you spend any time online, you’ve likely heard Quentin Tarantino wax poetic about making his tenth and, so he says, final film, a quixotic…
The film critic’s impulse to champion auteurist extravagance over solid but not showily executed directorial and writerly competency is an understandable one; we live in…
2021’s Nobody, which starred Bob Odenkirk as a suburban family man who is actually, basically, John Wick, was a breakout hit during the Covid days.…
In the late 1950s, Brazilian footballer Didi introduced a new technique for kicking the ball, the so called “dry leaf.” Much like a leaf falling…
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…
“Welcome to the new West,” in which teenage rodeo riders with undercuts listen to cloud rap and horses are sold on TikTok. In East of…
It’s always fortuitous for a documentary filmmaker to find themselves able to capture seismic historical shifts as they are happening. But of course, this is…
Given the muted critical response and prolonged time period between its festival premiere and eventual (limited) distribution, the new Olivier Assayas film has apparently been…