Despite boasting one of the cringier on-the-nose titles of the year, one that on its face would seem to promise overt sentimentality, painter and installation…
Living as we all are in a post-Romantasy world, certain chain bookstores (RIP Borders) have been financially reinvigorated. This, of course, has simultaneously resulted in…
The greatest sin a basketball film or TV series can commit is to enlist actors who can’t actually play basketball. More than any other sport,…
A short 15 years ago, in a(n almost) post-Harry Potter world, it looked as if the young adult SFF wave was poised to be the…
Neorealist drama Bicycle Thieves said so much about our human condition and the struggle to rise above one’s dire circumstances that its main concept of…
If, as the film’s logline suggests, we are to read the humble oyster as a “queer icon of New York City’s unlikely survival story,” then…
The first thing you need to understand about The Deliverance is that said deliverance is different from an exorcism — no intercessor is needed. At…
With 2024 marking the arrival of their eighth co-directed feature (with a couple additional co-director credits going to daughter Zelda in recent efforts), the projects…
Karma’s a bitch. JoJo Siwa warned us all earlier this summer, and so the timing of her latest film (and the first that isn’t tween-appealing…
Rarely has a NEON film so thoroughly lived up to the colorless and inert nature of the studio namesake as does Mothers’ Instinct, the directorial…
As Catherine Breillat’s first film in a decade, Last Summer scans initially as an altogether more mannered affair for the director. Known for her sexually…
It wasn’t all that long ago when it seemed John Green’s shine couldn’t be blocked. A Young Adult author coming of prominence during the great…
A full quarter century after Earth inaugurated the Disneynature brand — add a year to that if you count The Crimson Wing in 2008, but…
It’s undeniably passé — and often critically fruitless — to note the difficult “art of adaptation” when it comes to translating literature for the screen,…
Fewer subgenres in recent memory have had a more fleeting window of viability, if ever it even really existed, than the “pandemic film.” Beyond that,…
At first blush (and the next few, for that matter), actress Brittany Snow’s directorial debut, Parachute, which premiered in the Narrative Feature Competition at the…
“You are a baby man.” Less an insult than an observation, these words spoken to Lousy Carter (David Krumholtz) by his ex Candela (Olivia Thirlby)…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Reality Very Rarely Provides a Neat Ending: An Interview with Antoine Bourges by Conor Truax IFFR Roundup Let’s Be In the…
Death hangs over the first moments of The Temple Woods Gang, the riveting seventh feature from French-Algerian filmmaker Rabah Ameur-Zaimëche. Grizzled military retiree Pons (Régis…
“Not a day elapsed which did not bring us news of the decease of some acquaintance. Then, as the fatality increased, we learned to expect…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Not the Other Way Around: Poor Things, From Novel to Screen by Theo Rollason Jafar Panahi’s Post-Arrest Filmography: Deliberating Defiance by Dhruv…