Every filmmaker has to start somewhere; for Francis Ford Coppola, like virtually the entire New Hollywood cohort that took the mainstream by storm in…
By the time Miklós Jancsó made Red Psalm in 1972, he had already established his own allegorical mode of filmmaking. Stories of uprisings, movements,…
Ghosts of workers lost to corporate violence in Jakarta and Korea; a future media archaeologist picking through Indonesia’s fossilized e-waste; sand miners under the…
The world humanity leaves behind won’t be completely empty, despite our best attempts. There will be all the animals that manage to outlive a…
Wolfs is so confident that it can entirely coast on the incredible chemistry between its two leads, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, that it…
Sometimes there’s pleasure to be taken in genre familiarity if the muscles are appropriately and well-flexed. An effectively written voiceover, haunted protagonist, seductive femme…
We have so many World War II-era films and biographical films of varying quality that for a new one to feel properly worthwhile it…
After several festival dates in 2023, Simon Barrett and E.L. Katz’s Azrael seemed to fall off the face of the Earth. Given the current…
“Someone’s inside.” These two words, uttered with ominous clarity, spur Jason Yu’s invigorating debut, Sleep, into malevolent and mysterious somnolence; for in the world…
Awaara was restored in 4K by the National Film Archive of India (NFDC) under National Film Heritage Mission, a project undertaken by the Ministry…
Sofia Bohdanowicz has always been a filmmaker unafraid to mine the uncomfortable depths of her own, and her family’s, history. Across 10 years of…
Aaron Schimberg’s third feature, A Different Man, is a genre-bending character portrait of Edward (Sebastian Stan, wearing a prosthetic mask), a lonely and failed…
At the end of the very first (of many) verbal arguments in Azazel Jacobs’ His Three Daughters, an emotionally potent chamber drama about three…
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…
Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker) has a problem, but it might be sort of a familiar one, which is a little symptomatic of just what’s…
The increasingly ballooning runtimes of auteurist projects — specially made by those who belong to the ever-expanding School of Slow Cinema — inspire more…
“We don’t want to scare people,” a director says at the beginning of Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man. It’s the set of a workplace…
All Shall Be Well opens with a leisurely, near-fantastical tour through what appears to be a typical 24 hours for Angie (Patra Au) and…