In this roundup…
Given the franchise’s downward trajectory since its requel resurrection, reasonable hopes were never bound to be high for Scream 7. But then came the reprehensible…
One of the least consequential but more intriguing facets of our age of technology acceleration is watching which flavor of tech nostalgia will be the…
Following Steven Soderbergh’s Presence earlier in the year, Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy is the second 2025 film to hang its haunted house conceit on a…
In addition to being the leading auteur working in the Inuktitut language, director Zacharias Kunuk has been a standard bearer for Indigenous cinema more generally…
There’s a certain futility to any critical appraisal of a film like Jim Hosking’s third feature, Ebony & Ivory. That’s not to say there’s a…
After arguably seeing his fame peak in the early days of Covid — on the back of starring turns in Big Time Adolescence and The…
When Smoke Signals arrived in U.S. theaters on the eve of Independence Day, 1998, few could anticipate the wave of Native American art that would…
Walt Disney Pictures is not well. It’s been a hot minute, hour, fortnight since the house that Walt built has delivered a legitimately impressive work…
Across five feature films to date, most of which exist within a liminal space located between fiction and documentary narrative, demarcated with blurred lines, Roberto…
Filled with the rhythm of a rock song and the visual language of a nightmare, Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight feels like the mix spun from…
“The world’s most important and influential band breaks up and it’s not a big deal.” Thus begins Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, establishing from the jump…
The most laudable thing about director Jared Hess’ feature adaptation of Minecraft is the “A” of the title. In contrast with, say, The Super Mario…
Hell of a Summer is an easy film to dislike. A summer camp slasher that unabashedly and quite winkingly wears the skin of its forebears…
The two sequences that form the beginning of Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April set a mood of violent unease. We follow a faceless creature, vaguely humanoid despite…
There’s a scene in Alex Garland’s Civil War, in which a man is shot in the heart and killed. The man is from Hong Kong,…
With his latest feature, director Robert Schwentke has moved away from his Time Traveler’s Wife, Divergent, Snake Eyes-days of bad blockbuster filmmaking. Seneca — On…
More than ever, questions of form and the constitution of cinema swirl, boundaries challenged or collapsing regularly in a present where visual media is dominated…
Early in Jazzy, Morissa Maltz’s follow-up to her feature narrative debut The Unknown Country, a pair of best friends sit in the sunken center of…
At its moment of most shine, CollegeHumor was perhaps the ubiquitous Internet content for a certain demo of Internet users. From the vantage of 2025,…
With his 2019 debut Saint Frances, Alex Thompson offered up a strong resume. It wasn’t a film that entirely worked, but it was rich in…